Henry Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27th 1807, Portland cement, Maine, the United States - March 24th 1882, Cambridge, Massachusetts, the United States is a American Poète, author of many still famous poems in the United States, such as The Song off Hiawatha ( Song of Hiawatha ) or Evangeline . It passed the essence of its existence to Cambridge, close to the university of Harvard.

Biography

Henry is the son of Jacques Longfellow, lawyer, and of Lillian Wadsworth Longfellow. His/her maternal grandfather illustrated himself as general during the war of independence. The Longfellow family had emigrated in America in 1676 by leaving the Yorkshire, England. As regards his/her father, Henry Longfellow also goes down from Priscilla and John Alden, one of the famous Pilgrims which had embarked in 1620 on the Mayflower and which founded the colony of Plymouth.

School-fellow of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Longfellow makes his studies in Bowdoin College with Brunswick in the Maine. He remains there as librarian then, after a voyage in Europe of 1826 with 1829, becomes the first professor of modern languages about it.

He marries Mary Storer Potter in 1831. This one dies a few years later, in 1835, with Rotterdam during a voyage of the couple. Longfellow is named professor with Harvard. He marries later Frances “Fanny” Appleton and lives with Craigie House , a residence which gives on the Charles river. When he courts this one, Longfellow made often with foot the going way of its residence with Boston, while crossing the river by West Boston Bridge. During its rebuilding in 1906, the bridge was famous Longfellow Bridge.

Longfellow leaves its pulpit in Harvard and takes its retirement in 1854, to devote itself entirely to the writing. In 1861, Frances dies, after having put accidentally fire at its dress. Longfellow is deeply marked by it. In 1879, it writes off the sonnet The Cross Snow (the cross of snow) in the honor of his wife missing before dying three years later.

Longfellow is buried with the cemetery Mount Auburn with Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1884, he is the first American poet to have his bust placed in the Poet' S Corner (Corner of the poets) of the Abbaye of Westminster to London.

Work (selection)

The work of Longfellow was immensely popular during its life. Even if it remains very known today, the majority of modern criticisms find it too sentimental. Its poetry employs familiar and comprehensible topics in a simple and limpid language. Its poetry strongly contributed to the construction of the American myth.

Overseas , (1835)
Voices off the Night , (1839 with in particular the poems “Hymn to the Night”, “The Psalm off Life” and “The Light off the Stars”
Hyperion (1839), Romance
Ballads and Other Poems , (1841 with in particular the poems “The Wreck off the Hesperus” and “The Blacksmith Village”
Poems one Slavery , (1842)
Evangeline , (1847)
The Courtship off Miles Standish , (1858)
The Tales off has Wayside Inn , 1863, containing in particular the famous poem “Paul Revere' S Ride”

External bonds

Some parts of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are on line in the Projet Gutenberg
Poésies of H.W. Longfellow in Audiolivre MP3 Creative Commons

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