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he went abroad to study the of the North
ern nations, taking with him Mrs. Longfellow who
died suddenly in Rotterdam. The subsequent spring
and summer he spent in Switzerland and the Tyroi.
He returned to America in October, 1885, and en-
tered upon the dnies of his professorslip which he
discharged for seventeen years. He Published In
1889 Hyperion A Romance" story OF personal
experiences and remarkable both for its paihos and
subdued humor.
Mr. Longfelow had during these years been con-
tributing to the magazines and particularly to
The Knickerbocse little pieces of poetry. In
1889 these were collected in q 16mo volume with
the title /" Voicrs of the Night and published at
Cambridge. This book also contained some OF tho
authors earlier productions and translations from
foreign languages. The success Of this publication
was immediate and great, aud many OF its
passages have passed into the common stock
of familiar quotations" They had the merit
Of coming home to the business and bo-
SONS of men, and II they were not
profoundly original, they were gratefully true
to many Of the best feelings of human nature. In
1S41 Mr.. Longfelow published Ballads and
Other POEMS" This contained The Wreck of the
Hesperus," "The Village Blacksmith aud The
Skeleton in Armor." which is perhaps the finest Of
Mr.. Longfellow's minor poems. thin volume Of
'' Poems on Slavery" was published in 1s42, and
"The Spanish Student a Play" in IS43. OF the
latter, Edwin p. Wbpple, the distinguished critic.
said: "None of Mr.. Longfellows other pieces so
well illustrates all his pOetical qualies-his magi-
nation, his fancy, his sentiment and bis manner II
seems to comprehend the whole extent Of his
genius"
The summer of 1912 Mr. Longfellow passed at
Boppard, on the Rhine. In 1s46 he printed. at
Cambridge, "The Belfry of Bruges and other
POEMS" About this time he married Miss Apple
tL.,
Boston merchant. In 1Si7 was published Evan
geine; Tale of Acadie" This another exper-
irnent in English hexameters. No less Greek critic
than President FELTON, declared that the writer had
managed the versifcation with as perfect a mas
terry over the dactylic anyone has ever
acquired in our language" The London Athea9um
thought that :" with the SORROWS Of Evaugeline
simpler rhythm would have been more in har-
m0ny" and suggested that the real charm Of tho
tale lay in its insulated pictures of scenery" But
foreign critics were unanimous In declaring the
poem full of beautics of real indigenous growth.
Perhaps this is the first poem written in English
hexameters which ever became popular. Its feeling
and pathos and its pleasing pastoral sketches, with
the interest of the tale, have triumphed over the
use of a metre unfamiliar to the public ear until
this poem made 1t otherwise.
In 1S49 Mr. Longfellow gave to the public
a story of New England life and manners-Profes-
sor Lowell in The North american Reriec called it
4" an exact dagIerreotype" "The Seaside and The
Fireside,' published In 1s49. contained twenty
minor poems. A more important work was /" Tho
Golden Legend" printed in 1851, drama in which.
says Ruskin the poet has entered more closely into
the temper of the monk, for good and for evil than
ever yet theological writer historian, though
they may have gwen their lfe's labor to
the analysis" Three compilations" The Waif.
a collection of Poems," "The Estray, collection
of Poems" and The Poets and Poetry of Europe;
with Biographical Notices and Transiations," had
been published previously, and were issued In new
editions in ls55-'57. The latter contained many
translations by the editor.
In 1854 Mr.. Longtellow resigned his professorship,
but continued TO reside at Cambridge. In " tho
Craigie House." formerly occupied by Washington
as headquarters and which has become well known
to sightseers and the whole reading public. In
1855 was published The Song of Hiawatha." the
success of which was instantaneous not less than
10000 copies being sold within four weeks after
publication. 1t was called by the author himself
An Indian Edda" 1t was founded upon Indian
traditions, the scene being among the Ojibways, on
the southern shore of Lake Superior. 1t writ
ten in unalterateG, rhymeless trochaics, novelty
TO which the reading public easily resigned itself,
though the critics made it the theme of no
to the national metre of Finland. Mr..
FTeiligrath declared it to be I'm
modified flnpish metre--modlisd by the exquisite
genius of the English language and the wants OF
modern taste" sir John Bowring said Most OF
the poetry Of the Firms is written in that peculiar
metre to which Longfellow has given a certain pop
ularity in his Hiawatha ,; but believe may take
credit to myself for having been the first 70 intro
duce it into our language in an article which ap-
peared in The Uestminster Reriep OF April 1927
1t is unnecessary to revive ali the details of this lit
erary controversy Unfortunately. tue rhythm was
No poem was ever more read abroad and at homo.
Mr.. Bright alluded to t in debate in the House Of
Commons, and Cardinal Wiseman publicly
pressed his appreciation of it. In 1856, four months
after its issue, German translation of it, by
Adolph Bottger, was published in Liepsic and an
other by Ferdinand FreiligTath The poem in Eng
lish was also pubIshsi in Leipsic 1t is to be
questioned whether any single publication in the
Language ever occasoned greater and wider inter:
est than this The peculiarly both OF its matter end
manner furnished work for the antiquarian. tho
philoogist the literary critic the historian, the
painter and the sculptor This is evidence, If not Of
q great, at least OF remarkable, poem.
~ Hiawathao was followed in 1858 by Tho
courtship of Miles Standish. another poem in En-
Inn " in 1867 by Flower-de-Luce and IN 1853
by 1.-The NewEngland Tragedies" In ls6sJ69
Mr.. Longiellow visited Europe again, aud at this
by the University of Oxford. He had previously
been made an LID. of Harvard College.
and he was also ID. =. L.. OF Cambridge, England hd
received many other academic honors from differ.
ent seats of learning. "The Divine Tragedy,"a
sacred DRAMA was published in 1872 and eollec-
1874. - he Golden Legend" The New Eng gland
Tragedies and The Divine Tragedy /" have been
united in q volume under the general title Of
"Christus." In lS67|70 he published a transa-
ton of " The Divina Commcdia of Dante into En-
gsh verse and he also compiled a series OF little
collections of verses on Places" which were Is
sued in an attractive form and moderate cost In
1875 he delivered a poem " Morituri Salutamus."
at Bowdoln College, on the semi l-centenniI anni-
yersary of the graduation of his class and in 1870
he also published a Centennial poem i'll The Atantio
Monthly Magazine. Mr.. Longtellow's works have
been published in various forms in England, where
a.. bao,, liar