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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Standard Name: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Connections
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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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Mary Brame | The novel is structured around recurrent references to two other texts: Longfellow
's The Courtship of Miles Standish, which is used to structure the debate between Phillipa and Arleigh over whether a woman may... |
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. |
death | Frances Power Cobbe | A telegram asking a physician to sever her arteries after death was found by her bed. According to a family story, her great-grandmother had fallen into a coma and almost been buried alive. She was... |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | George Douglas | The three title-pages of this novel bear lines of poetry on their versoes: from, respectively, Bret Harte
, Whyte Melville
, and Longfellow
. Its tone (except perhaps in the denouement) is quite unlike the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Isabella Duberly | FID
turns frequently in her journal to literary quotation. She often quotes from poets whose popularity has waned, but she also calls on Longfellow
, Duberly, Frances Isabella. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6. Editor Kelly, Christine, Oxford University Press. 216 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Isabella Duberly | The title-page quotes James Beattie
and Shakespeare
. For dedication, five stanzas from Longfellow
addressed to absent friends invoke again members of the Eighth Hussars
. FID
's preface declares her intention of reporting the... |
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. 59 |
Friends, Associates | Dora Greenwell | Among DG
's other writer friends were Elizabeth Charles
, Margaret Hunt
, and Sarah Tytler
. Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking. 297-8, 429 Bett, Henry. Dora Greenwell. Epworth Press. 18-20, 22 Gray, Janet. “Dora Greenwell’s Commonplace Book”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 57 , No. 1, pp. 47-74. 50, 51 Gray, Janet. “The Sewing Contest: Christina Rossetti and the Other Women”. A/B: Auto/Biography Studies, Vol. 8 , No. 2, pp. 233-57. 240 Hickok, Kathleen. Representations of Women: Nineteenth-Century British Women’s Poetry. Greenwood Press. 215 |
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 | |
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
... |
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... |
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... |
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.