Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Standard Name: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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.
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
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.
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and when Lord Raglan is dead and many officers...
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.
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She reviewed works by...
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.
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Bett, Henry. Dora Greenwell. Epworth Press.
18-20, 22
Gray, Janet. “Dora Greenwell’s Commonplace Book”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol.
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, 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.
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She was also acquainted with Longfellow , William Bell Scott
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...
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.