New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-25
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LONDON, March 24.-7he Standard says Long
fellow commands wider audience among our peo-
pie than any poet of this age, save perhaps, Tenny
son."
LONDON, March 25-In an article on the death of
Longfeow The Telegraph says: "The place Long
fellow occupies in English literature is decidedly
bright He is almost as well known and widely
read in England as in America. His
influence has been wholly good. AS long as the
English language lasts his works will be quoted
models of simplicity of style and purity of thought.
Death has taken Americas greatest literary SON."
The Daily Neics says: "LongTeIlOws death will be
lamented in every English home. His verses are
not likely to die out of English literature for many
generations to come"
The Times says: The news of Longfellow's death
will be read with deep regret w wherever the
no literary EngGohilan coIid excite moro genuine
sorrow than. that of the, much-loved author of
Evangelne.' He will be no more sincerely
lamented in America than in this country"
LIFE AND WORKS OF MR.. LONGFELLOW.
Henry W. Longfellow was born "in a square
wooden house on the edge of the sea-" in the
City of Portland Maine, then Massachusetts,,
on the 9th of February, 1907. His father Stephen
LongfellOw, lawyer of distinction. The
American ancestor of the family was William Long
fellow, of Newbury. Mass, who was born in Hamp-
shire, England. in 1861, and came to America in
1870. lie was uTOWDeu dl desert lslanu
of Canada East The great-grandfather
of the poet was Stephen Longfellow, who in 1745
removed from Newbury. Mass, to Portland. and it
is of interest to know, in view of the popular
poem of the Village Blacksmith that this
grandsire was also blacksmith He married. March
% 1714. Abigail Thompson. daughter of Edward
Thompson, of Marshield, by whom he had ten chill
dren In his son Stephen. born February T. 1923, he
seems early to have discovered signs of intellectual
PROMISE aud he sent him to Harvard College, where
he was graduated in 1742. The atter's son Stephen
was also q graduate Of Harvard in 1898.
This the father of the poet sister of Stephen
Longfellow, Abigail, married Samuel Stephenson.
rich merchant of Portland, and the owner
of spacious mansion. As her husband
had been suddenly called to the West Indies on
business she invited her brother TO spend the win
ter Of 1SO6l7 with her. Thus it was
that on the 9th of February. 1907 in
this house, and not in the Longfelow house, was
born this second son, Henry Wadsworth. He
was named after Mrs. Longfellow's brother,
Lieutenant Henry Wadsworth, who on the night of
September d, 1904. in the harbor of
Tripoli, lost his life, voluntary
sacrifice IN gallant endeavor to destroy
the enemy's fleet by fire ship.
Stephen Longfellow, the poets father took
u
for some years. and was o member of
Congress- On the mothers side, Mr.. Longieow
was a descendant of John Alden, of May1ower
and Miles Standsh" memory. In his four
teenth wear he was matrculated at BowdOin Col
lege Me-, taking his bachelors degree in 1925.
Several of his poems were written during
his college course, and among them the
Hymn of the Moravian Nuns" 1.-THE Spirit of
Poetry" and Sunrise on the Hills "-verses
of considerable elegance but full of recolections of
what had pleased him in others. Many of these
poems were published in The United States Literary
Gazette After graduating he entered the office of
his father for the purpose of studying law, but be-
Ing offered the chair of Modern Languages in Bow
don College, in 1926, he visited France, Spain,
Italy and Germany for the purpose of pathological
study; he remained some time at the University of
Gottingen. and returning by the way of England,
entered upon the duties of his place in 1929. In
1881 he was married to Miss Mary s. Potter of Port
land Me-, who died while journeying in Europe.
In 1913 he married Frances Elizabeth, daughter of
Nathan Appleton of Boston. She was a woman of
rare loveliness of face and character, and the
mother of the five children who survive DR.. Long
fellow Her death resulted from the burning of her
clothing.
During these years he was contributor to The
North american RerteT, and published translation
from the Spanish of Las Copids de Don Jorge
Manrique, which Ticknor in his History of Spanish
Literature speaks of as beautiful version" Ii
was preceded by essay on Spanish poetry. There
was previous translation by Dr. Bowring to which
this was thought to DO superior both in elegance
and fidelity. Mr.. Longfellow also published in 1885.
in two volumes. "Outre-Nler, Pilgrimage Beyond
the Sea-" This reminiscence of foreign travel must
havo been popular for during the twenty years fol-
lowing 1900 copies of it were sold. The London
AthenGum said of it.; If Longfellow had come be-
fore Irving his fame would be that of founder of
school, so far as America is concerned rather than
of one of the scholars"
Mr.. George uclnor having resigned the. Professor