Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Standard Name: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Travel Iza Duffus Hardy
After leading a busy social life in Ottawa and Toronto, they travelled via Niagara Falls to New York. They wintered in San Francisco, where IDH gathered material for novels. Among other distinguished...
Travel Mary Anne Duffus Hardy
During the few years following her husband's death, MADH travelled twice to the United States and once to Canada with her daughter Iza . The two women landed first in Canada in the latter part...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Fuller
In her review Miss Barrett 's Poems she praised the English poet's majesty and her poetic vision but noted also her lack of economy and the stiffness of her verse.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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She reviewed works by...
Textual Production Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde , wrote to poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to express her appreciation for his work; she sent copies of verses she had written on him that had appeared in the Boston Pilot.
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray.
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Textual Production Beatrice Harraden
BH published a novel entitled (quoting from a song in Longfellow 's Tales of a Wayside Inn, 1863) Ships that Pass in the Night, dedicated to her friends Agnes and John Kendall ...
Textual Production Isabella Banks
IB published her last two novels: Bond Slaves: The Story of a Struggle, about the Luddite Rebellion, and The Slowly Grinding Mills, whose title is borrowed from a line by Longfellow .
Luddite...
Textual Production Mary Cowden Clarke
Mary Cowden Clarke published a parody of Hiawatha by Longfellow : The Song of Drop o' Wather by Harry Wandsworth Shortfellow.
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
Textual Production Frances Power Cobbe
Another well-known hymn, written in 1859 and anthologized by A. H. Miles , begins with the line God draws a cloud over each gleaming morn. Cobbe also wrote verse later in her life, such...
Textual Production Jean Ingelow
Two years after the release of her second volume entitled Poems, some of her verses appeared in a Canadian collection titled The New Poems of Jean Ingelow, J. G. Whittier , H. W. Longfellow.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Lydia Howard Sigourney
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 .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Textual Production Katharine Tynan
In addition to this editorial work, KT also wrote introductions or forewords for a number of volumes, including Lionel Johnson 's Poems (1904), Edmund Leamy 's By the Barrow River and Other Stories (1907), The...
Textual Features Isabella Neil Harwood
The King and the Angel is INH 's attempt to dramatise a story told in Leigh Hunt 's Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla, 1848. The legend behind this story has given rise to...
Textual Features Edna Lyall
The story opens with Charles Osmond's son Brian, a young doctor in Bloomsbury, and his daily observation of a tall schoolgirl on her way home with her books. This is Erica Raeburn, who has...
Publishing Beatrice Harraden
In a preface to the authorized American edition (dated 14 May 1894 at Tuckahoe, New York) BH related how she was unable to find the quotation with which she wished to title her book...
Occupation Fanny Kemble
She much preferred reading to full-scale theatrical productions: The happiness of reading Shakespeare's heavenly imaginations is so far beyond all the excitement of acting them.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster.
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The readings were popular and lucrative. Longfellow wrote a...

Timeline

27 February 1807: Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born...

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27 February 1807

Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, USA.

17 November 1820: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's first known...

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17 November 1820

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 's first known publication, The Battle of Lovell's Pond, appeared in the Portland Gazette.

By 13 June 1840: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published his...

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By 13 June 1840

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published his first collection of poetry, Voices of the Night.

19 December 1841: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published Ballads...

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19 December 1841

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published Ballads and Other Poems, which included The Wreck of the Hesperus and The Village Blacksmith.

10 November 1855: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published The...

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10 November 1855

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published The Song of Hiawatha.

25 November 1863: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published the...

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25 November 1863

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published the first part of Tales of a Wayside Inn.

1882: Longfellow's In the Harbor, composed of a...

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1882

Longfellow 's In the Harbor, composed of a few previously published verses and those poems left uncollected at his death, was published posthumously.

24 March 1882: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet, died....

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24 March 1882

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , poet, died.

Texts

Ingelow, Jean et al. The New Poems of Jean Ingelow, J. G. Whittier, H. W. Longfellow. Belford Bros., 1876.