Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-11-05
Hiqh School Literary Society.


cram consisting of quotations, essays,
rotations, and the society paper.
The society is now in good working
.,ndition. They ore taking an interest
,,at VIII surely result in efficient
and rood discipline aloag the line of
literary attachments. 1t i desired by
-, Interested that the friends OF the
.ohoo make frequent visits. The
next meeting occurs November Is
All are cordially invited to be present.
one feature of these programs deserve
..,,.fal mention. \ committee pres
,,r,.. a sketch of the life OF some emf
,,.4t American author ana selects
rloic, quotations from his writings.
q,,.,.n are distributed among the mem
hers. each receiving point in the life
sketch and quotation which he gives
in response To his maine at ron call.
The following sketch wa, compiled by
%attir Harrington, and the quotations
were selected by Flora Sprague and
Enma Clarke:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, an
American poet, "ao born in Portland,
Maine, on February -, 1907. He died
March -, lSs2 At the age of ii, he
entered BoWdoin College, Brunswick,
and graduated there with high houors
in 1925. While student in the Bow
dom College he wrote some OF the best
k..uNn of his earlier poems, which
were. .Hvun of the Moravian Nuns
oSpIrit of Poetry" Woods in Winter"
sunrise of the Hills For short
time he studied law in his fathers
office; but II professoIship of modern
languages having been founded in the
Bowdoin college, and offered hi n, he
accepted 1t, and proceeded to Europe
to uualifv himself for the discharge of
hi, new duties.
He returned to America in 1929 and
entered upon his professional work
He held his professorship at Harvard
II years, resigning in 1854, but contin-
uing to reside at Cambridge, in the
house occupied by Washington when
the revolutionary army was camped
in that neighborhOod. He spent the
summer of 1912 az Boppard on the
Rhine. In 1869 he revisited Europe
and was everywhere the recipient of
high honors, especially in England,
where his writings are exceedingly
popular. Men of the highest literary
and social distinction sought hi. ac-
quaintance and were charmed by his
dignitied, kindly and unassuming de
pertinent.
The general verdict upon his poetry
is that, while it fails to represent the
deepest passions of human nature, it
is always kindled 10y the broadcast
sympathies, and marked by a delicate
apprecia ton of all that is beautiful in
nature and noble in humanity. Keen
~ sensitive to the imperfectlons and
misdoings of men, he is never cens"rius,
but always gentle and persuasive, ap-
pealing 10 the sympathles and motives
VIII Oh are common to people Of every
rae, country and climate. He eX
hbits the fruits of Il broad culture, not
IN strained allusior 5 to things beyond
the reach OF common readers, but IN
the clearness and simplicity with
which he interprets to them the
MODEST thoughts of the nouiest men
OF every age and country.
The same year in which he was ap-
pointed to the chair OF Modern Lam
guage and Literature at Harvard, he
wrote his first substantive work, Ontre
Mer, In 1889 he published Hyperion,
prose romance, and Voices of the
Nlght." Among some OF his most
noted poems are Ballads, Poems on
Slavery, Poets and Poetry of Europe,
Evangeline, The Golden Legend,
Hlawatha, Miles Standish, and Way
side Inn. His last important work is
translation Of Dante's Divinia Com
media remarkable tor its llteralness
ana hdelity to the original. In 1865
iahd, IN which he has thrown the
eharm OF poetry over the dark story of
tue hlartyrdom, of those earnest advo-
cafes oil Christian liberty, the Early
FRIEND. 'Longfellow, , says Whipple,
"eaIiAes real life, embo lies high
moral sentiment in beautiful and ell
"oo'ihs forms, aud inweaves the
s''aeh threads OF spiritual being INTO
'''e texture of common existence.
Lot not him that putteth his hand
!" me plou-h look backwards; though
''.e lio"aIlare cut through the flowers
VI NE lis fountains, though it pass
ger The graves of the dead and the
hearts OF the living. 1t is the will OF
'o'' ana his mercy endureth forever
l. 'h"u art worn and hard beset with
'"''""s that thou would's forget,-It