Long fellow, Henry Wads worth

Me., 1807-1882. The most widely read of American poets. He was born in Portland, Maine, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1825 in the cla with Nathaniel Hawthorne. After three years of study in Europe he was profe or of modern languages at Bowdoin College, 1829-35, and filled the same position at Harvard University, 1835-1854, his home being at Cambridge from 1835. The range of his thought is not wide, and his genius was rather adaptive than creative, but his poetry appeals to a larger number of readers of verse than, perhaps, any other poet of his time. Its finished execution is especially noteworthy in most of his later work, his sonnets, for example, being nearly flawle specimens of their kind. Coplas de Manrique, a verse translation from the Spanish (1833); Outre-Mer, a prose volume of travels (1835); Hyper i on, a prose romance (1839); Voices of the Night (1839); Ballads, and Other Poems (1841); Poems on Slavery (1842); The Spanish Student (1843); The Belfry of Bruges, and Other Poems (1846); Evangeline (1847); Kavanagh, a prose tale (1849); Seaside and Fireside (1850); The Golden Legend (1851); Hiawatha (1855); The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858); Tales of a Wayside Inn, 1st series (1863); Flower de Luce (1867); New England Tragedies (1868); Dante’s Divina Com media; a translation (1867-1870); The Divine Tragedy (1872); Three Books of Song (1872); Aftermath (1874); The Masque of Pandora (1875); Kéramos (1878); Ultima Thule (1880); In the Harbor (1882); Michael Angelo (1883). See Lives by S. Long fellow, infra, Stoddard, Underwood, Austin; Atlantic Monthly, December, 1863, and June, 1882; Scribner’s Magazine, November, 1878; Harper’s Magazine, June, 1882; Living Age, November 4, 1882; Fortnightly Review, January, 1883; Century Magazine, October, 1883; Hazeltine’s Chats About Books; Stedman’s Poets of America; Works on American Literature by Nichol, Richardson, Hawthorne; Cheney’s That Dome in Air; Bibliography of Maine; Memorial Addre by D. R. Good win. Hou.