Longfellow
Longfellow names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Longfellow HENRY WADS- WORTH, an American poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY WADS- WORTH, an American poet; born in Portland, Me., Feb. 27, 1807; was graduated in 1825 at Bowdoin College. In 1826 he accepted the professorship of modern languages at Bowdoin, spending, however, the next three years in Europe. In 1835 appeared "Outre-Mer," a volume of prose sketches, and in the same year he was elected to the Smith professorship of modern languages at Harvard. After spending another year in Europe, he entered on his professorship in 1836. In 1839 he published "Hyperion, a Romance," and "Voices of the Night." "Ballads and other Poems," and "Poems on Slavery" appeared in 1842; "The Spanish Student," a drama, in 1843; "The Belfry of Bruges" in 1846; "Evangeline" in 1847. In 1845 he published an anthology, "The Poets and Poetry of Europe." His other works were: "Kavanagh" (1849); "The Seaside and the Fireside" (1850); "The Golden Legend" (1851); "Hiawatha" (1855); the "Courtship of Miles Standish" and "Birds of Passage" (1858); "Tales of a Wayside Inn" (1863); "Flower de Luce" (1866); a translation of Dante's "Divine Comedy" " (1867-1870); "New England Tragedies" (1869); "The Divine Tragedy" (1871); "Three Books of Song" (1872); "Aftermath" (1873); "The Hanging of the resorts. The city has numerous hotels, Crane" (1874); "Morituri Salutamus and the Masque of Pandora" (1875); "Keramos" (1878); "Ultima Thule" (1880); "In the Harbor" (1882); and "Michael Angelo," the fragment of a drama HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1883). He resigned his chair at Harvard in 1854. His poems are equally popular 1854 on both sides of the Atlantic. His best and most enduring work is to be found among his narrative and lyric poems. He died in Cambridge, Mass., March 24, 1882.
Longfellow SAMUEL, an American clergyman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SAMUEL, an American clergyman, brother of Henry W. Longfellow; born in Portland, Me., June 18, 1819. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1839, and at the Divinity School in 1846. He held pastorates in Unitarian churches in Fall River, Mass., Brooklyn, N. Y., and Germantown, Pa. Later he settled in Cambridge, Mass. As a hymn-writer he had few equals. He wrote: "Life of H. W. Longfellow" (2 vols., 1886); "Final Memorials of H. W. Longfellow" (1887). He died in Portland, Me., Oct. 3, 1892.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote this in 1921 it could state flatly that Longfellow's "poems are equally popular on both sides of the Atlantic" — he was then the most widely read poet in English, memorised by schoolchildren from Maine to Manchester. Within a generation modernist critics had pushed him out of the canon as sentimental and derivative, and by the mid-20th century "Evangeline" and "Hiawatha" survived mainly as recitation pieces and parodies rather than as serious literature. A cautious rehabilitation followed: the Library of America issued a Longfellow volume in 2000, his bicentennial was marked in 2007, and scholars now read him as a deliberate importer of European forms into American verse. His Cambridge home, where he died in 1882, is run by the National Park Service as the Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site.
Written for this edition, 2026.