Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807-1882)
The most popular American
poet of the 19th century
Life Experience
A: his youth in Portland
B: college years
C: move to Cambridge,
Massachusetts
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Literary Works
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
Paul Revere’s Ride
Writing Style
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Life experience
• born on February 27,
1807 in Portland.
• traveled and studied
several languages in
Europe
• Taught as a professor
at Bowdoin from 18291833 and taught in
Harvard from 1834-1854.
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Two Wives of Longfellow
Mary Storer Potter:
childhood friend
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Fanny Appleton:
daughter of a
wealthy
industrialist
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• He became the
first and only
American poet to
be honored with
a bust in the
Poet's Corner of
Westminster
Abbey in London,
England.
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• February 27, 1807 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
born
• 1813 Begins attending Portland Academy
• 1820 First published poem, "The Battle of Lovell's
Pond," appears in the "Portland Gazette"
• 1821 Enrolled at Bowdoin College in Brunswick,
ME. Stays in Portland for first year of studies
• 1825 Graduates from Bowdoin College
• 1826 - 1829 Travels/Studies in Europe
• 1829 - 1835 Teaches at Bowdoin College
• 1831 Marries Mary Potter
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• 1835 Outre-Mer published. Longfellow returns to Europe
with Mary and two of her friends. Mary dies in
Rotterdam
• 1836 Meets Frances (Fanny) Appleton. Returns to US from
second tour of Europe, moves to Cambridge, MA to begin
professorship at Harvard
• 1839 Voices of the Night and Hyperion published
• 1843 Marries Fanny
• 1844 - 1855 Henry and Fanny have six children: Charles,
Ernest, Frances (died at age 16 months), Alice, Edith, and
Anne
• 1847 Publishes Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
• 1854 Retires from teaching
• 1855 Publishes The Song of Hiawatha
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• 1861 Fanny dies
• 1863 Publishes Tales of a Wayside
Inn
• 1867 Publishes a translation of
Dante's Divine Comedy
• 1868 Received by Queen Victoria
• 1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
dies
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Longfellow's Works
Collection of Poems
Voices of the Night 《夜吟》
Ballads and Other Poems 《歌谣及其他》
Poems on Slavery 《奴役篇》
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• 咏颂坚贞爱情的
诗歌
• The poem follows
an Acadian阿卡迪
亚 girl named
Evangeline and her
search for her lost
love Gabriel, set
during the time of
the Expulsion of
the Acadians
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• one of Longfellow's best known and
most widely read poems
• create the national hero
• During a time of great national upheaval,
people seized on Paul Revere as an
example of the county's noble past
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the first American to
translate Dante's Divine
Comedy旦丁的《神曲》
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• 1) He is the best known of the
Fireside poets.
• 2) It was with him that American
poetry began its emergence from
the shadow of the British
parentage.
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·1) insist poetic convention—standard forms,
regular meter, and rhymed stanzas.
·2) their poems are suitable for memorization
and recitation in school and also at home,
where it was a source of entertainment for
families gathered around the fire.
· 3) primary subjects: the domestic life,
mythology, and politics of America.
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• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 朗费罗
• William Cullen Bryant 布莱恩特
• John Greenleaf Whittier 惠蒂尔
• James Russell Lowell 洛厄尔
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Longfellow’s poems are noted for their
Gentleness, sweetness, purity in poetry,
wrote poetry as a bird sings, with natural
grace and melody.
traditional poetic themes：family, children,
idealized love and friendship, about Indians,
about American history and tradition
traditional poetic techniques：regular
meters and feet, regular rhyming scheme,
easy rhyme and traditional symbols and
metaphors.
plain language
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