Author:
CURTIS, George William.
Title: Longfellow.
Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1882.
Notes: An interesting memorial and biographical sketch
of Longfellow, a most popular 19th century American
poet, giving a summary of his success along with his creative works,
published only three months after his death of March 24th of the same year.
Includes a full-page portrait illustration
of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), was born and raised in
the Portland, Maine area.
He attended university at an early age at Bowdoin College in
Brunswick, Maine. After several journeys overseas,
he settled for the last forty-five years of his life
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in a wood frame house
once occupied during the American Revolution by General George
Washington and his staff.
Some of his works include Paul Revere's Ride, A Psalm of Life,
The Song of Hiawatha and Evangeline.
He also wrote the first American translation of Dante Alighieri's
Divine Comedy and was one of the five
members of the group known as the Fireside Poets.
Still in publication today, Harper's Magazine was one of the best-known and most-respected
periodicals of the Victorian era covering literature, politics,
culture, finance, and the arts from a then progressive perspective.
Harper's was launched in June 1850 by the New York City
book-publishing firm Harper & Brothers.
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Condition:
6 pages, plus 1 full-page sketch illustration.
Attractively bound in green paper covers with label.
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