The Ridpath library of universal literature (Volume 15); a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including ... the best features of many celebrated - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1898 Excerpt: ... LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth, an American poet, born at Portland, Me., February 27, 1807; died at Cambridge, Mass., March 24, 1882. He entered Bowdoin College at fourteen, was graduated in 1825; was tutor there for a short time, and in 1826 was appointed Professor of Modern Languages. He then went to Europe, where he studied three years; returning late in 1829, he entered upon his duties as Professor. In 1835 he was chosen to succeed George Ticknor as Professor of Modern Languages and Literature in Harvard College. He established himself in the old Craigie House, which had been Washington's headquarters in 1775-76, which continued to be his home during the remainder of his life. He resigned his professorship in 1854. While a student at Bowdoin he contributed several short poems to the Boston Literary Gazette, which were afterward brought together under the title of Earlier Poems. While Professor at Bowdoin he contributed several papers to the Nort/i American Review, one of which, on "The Moral and Devotional Poetry of Spain," contained his translation of the Coplas dc Manrique. Although Longfellow is most distinctively known as a poet, he wrote much graceful prose. Besides his college prelections and contributions to the North American Review he published Outre Mer, a series of sketches from Europe (1826); Hyperion, a romance (1839), and Kavanagh, a tale of New England life (1849). THE PICNIC AT ROARING BROOK. Every State and almost every county of New England has its "Roaring Brook," a mountain streamlet overhung by woods, impeded by a mill, encumbered by fallen trees, but ever racing, rushing, roaring down through gurgling gullies, and filling the forest with its delicious sound and freshness; the drinking-place of home-returning herds; the mysterious haun...