Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

At a very early age Emma Martin could recite See'st thou my home is where yon woods are waving by Felicia Hemans . After leaving school she continued to study music with Dr Zacariah or Zechariah Buck

At Clifton they moved more in society. Emma acquired John Addington Symonds the elder (father of the writer of the same name) as a sort of intellectual godfather and mentor and began in 1851...

Longfellow wrote to tell EM she had the applause of youth and age for this book: that of his daughter Edith and himself. He also sent her an American review, which praised the novel...

She at first planned to call this book Rachel. She dedicated it to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , in grateful remembrance of all I owe to him as Poet and Friend. The new title...

For UM and her sisters, reading poetry was the chief delight of our childhood days. By the time she began formal schooling at the age of ten, Una had read and memorized much of...

ESVM said her mothergave me poetry. In her mother's Shakespeare she encountered the passage in Romeo and Juliet about Death seeking Juliet as his paramour, and she later hyperbolically described the encounter: how...

Her work in the war won her praise. Longfellow 's poem Santa Filomena appeared in the inaugural issue of the Atlantic Monthly in November 1857. It paid tribute to, and mythologized, FN 's efforts in the Crimea.

The verse narrative is written in rhyming couplets, sometimes in very regular pentameter and at others in quite irregular metre that reflects, for instance, the anguish of the speaker's musings on memory and death. Stylistically...

TO was enrolled in first grade in Omaha,Nebraska, in January 1917, only three days after her elder sister. She also attended Socialist Sunday School, where she learned to revere American democracy and the history...

In the spring of 1877 Longfellow wrote to ask Bessie Rayner Belloc (formerly Parkes) if he might include some of her work in his multi-volume Poems of Places, whose publication had already begun.

Well known and much admired in her lifetime, ESP enjoyed friendships with many important literary figures, including publisher James Fields (who has been described as Christ-like in sympathy and kindness) and his wife...

AP 's parents entertained a circle of well-known literary personages, including Leigh Hunt , William Hazlitt , Thomas Moore , Wordsworth , Tennyson , Longfellow , and Henry James . Intimates of the household included...

The high opinions of many of AP 's contemporaries did not carry over into later assessments, although Eric Robertson in his English Poetesses, 1883, praised her for having reached the toiling busy thousands who...

Illustrated Poems by LHS , 1849, appeared in a prestigious series that also included William Cullen Bryant and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . She dedicated it to the aged English poet Samuel Rogers .

MS met Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning in Florence, and was in turn visited by Longfellow .