A Henry Wadsworth Longfellow CompanionBloomsbury Academic, 30 Δεκ 2003 - 311 σελίδες Best remembered today as the author of The Song of Hiawatha, Longfellow continues to be one of the most popular poets in American literary history. This book is a guide to his life and writings. A brief introductory essay overviews Longfellow's life and accomplishments. A chronology then summarizes the chief events in his career. Hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries follow, discussing individual poems, his other writings, his family members and professional associates, and topics related to his life and literary achievements. Entries list works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. |
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... professor , and man of letters . Holmes was born in Cam- bridge , Massachusetts , attended Phillips- Andover Academy , graduated from Harvard ( 1829 ) , and then attended Harvard's Dane Law School ( 1829-30 ) , Tremont Medical School in ...
... professor visits Flem- ming and the Baron , who falls asleep , bored by the professor's harangue " in a half- intelligible strain for two hours , " which Flemming thinks is mostly based on Die Bes- timmung des Menschen ( 1800 ) by ...
... Professor of Modern Languages at Bowdoin ( 1829-35 ) was $ 800 a year , with $ 100 in addition for his service as librarian that first year . Longfellow's an- nual salary as professor at Bowdoin was soon raised to $ 1,000 . In his ...