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Born in February 27, 1807 / Died in March 24, 1882 / United States / English

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BIBLIOGRAPHIES

  • Luther S. Livingston, A Bibliography of the First Editions in Book Form of the Writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (New York: De Vinne Press, 1908).
  • H. W. L. Dana, "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow," in Cambridge History of American Literature, 4 volumes, edited by William Peterfield Trent and others (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1917), II: 425-436.
  • Jacob Blanck, Bibliography of American Literature, volume 5 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969), pp. 468-640.
  • Richard Dilworth Rust, "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow," in Fifteen American Authors before 1900: Bibliographic Essays on Research and Criticism, edited by Robert A. Rees and Earl N. Harbert (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1971), pp. 263-283.

BIOGRAPHIES

  • William Sloane Kennedy, Henry W. Longfellow: Biography, Anecdote, Letters, Criticism (Cambridge, Mass.: Moses King, 1882).
  • George Lowell Austin, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: His Life, His Works, His Friendships (Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1883).
  • Samuel Longfellow, Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with Extracts from His Journals and Correspondence, 2 volumes (Boston: Ticknor, 1886); Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Boston: Ticknor, 1887); combined as Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 3 volumes (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1903).
  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1902).
  • Charles Eliot Norton, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A Sketch of His Life (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906).
  • Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow, Random Memories (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922).
  • Herbert S. Gorman, A Victorian American: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (New York: Doran, 1926).
  • Lawrance Thompson, Young Longfellow (1807-1843) (New York: Macmillan, 1938).
  • Carl L. Johnson, Professor Longfellow of Harvard (Eugene: University of Oregon Press, 1944).
  • Edward Wagenknecht, Longfellow: A Full-Length Portrait (New York: Longmans, Green, 1955).
  • Newton Arvin, Longfellow: His Life and Work (Boston: Little, Brown, 1963).
  • Wagenknecht, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Portrait of an American Humanist (New York: Oxford University Press, 1966).

REFERENCES

  • Gay Wilson Allen, "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow," in his American Prosody (New York: American Book Company, 1935), pp. 154-192.
  • George Arms, The Fields Were Green: A New View of Bryant, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, and Longfellow (Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 1953).
  • Van Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865 (New York: Dutton, 1936).
  • Lawrence Buell, "Introduction," in Selected Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (New York: Penguin, 1988).
  • Kenneth Walter Cameron, Longfellow's Reading in Libraries: The Charging Records of a Learned Poet Reconsidered (Hartford, Conn.: Transcendental Books, 1973).
  • Cameron, ed., Longfellow among His Contemporaries: A Harvest of Estimates, Insights, and Anecdotes from the Victorian Literary World (Hartford, Conn.: Transcendental Books, 1978).
  • Helen Carr, "The Myth of Hiawatha," Literature and History, 12 (Spring 1986): 58-78.
  • William Charvat, "Longfellow" and "Longfellow's Income from His Writings, 1840-1852," in his The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1968), pp. 106-167.
  • Robert A. Ferguson, "Longfellow's Political Fears: Civic Authority and the Role of the Artist in Hiawatha and Miles Standish," American Literature, 50 (March 1978): 187-215.
  • Angus Fletcher, "Whitman and Longfellow: Two Types of the American Poet," Raritan, 10 (Spring 1991): 131-145.
  • Dana Gioia, "Longfellow in the Aftermath of Modernism," in The Columbia History of American Poetry, edited by Jay Parini and Brett C. Millier (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), pp. 64-96.
  • Clarence Gohdes, "Longfellow and His Authorized British Publishers," PMLA, 55 (December 1940): 1165-1179.
  • Eric L. Haralson, "Mars in Petticoats: Longfellow and Sentimental Masculinity," Nineteenth-Century Literature, 51 (December 1996): 327-355.
  • Janet Harris, "Longfellow's Poems on Slavery," Colby Library Quarterly, 14 (June 1978): 84-92.
  • James Taft Hatfield, New Light on Longfellow, with Special Reference to His Relations with Germany (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1933).
  • Edward L. Hirsh, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1964).
  • Kenneth Hovey, "'A Psalm of Life' Reconsidered: The Dialogue of Western Literature and Monologue of Young America," American Transcendental Quarterly, new series 1 (March 1987): 3-19.
  • William Dean Howells, "The Art of Longfellow," North American Review, 184 (1 March 1907): 472-485.
  • Kent P. Ljungquist, "The 'Little War' and Longfellow's Dilemma: New Documents in the Plagiarism Controversy of 1845," Resources for American Literary Study, 23, no. 1 (1997): 28-57.
  • Joseph Masheck, "Professor Longfellow and the Blacksmith," Annals of Scholarship, 10 (Summer-Fall 1993): 345-361.
  • Joseph Chesley Mathews, ed., Henry W. Longfellow Reconsidered: A Symposium (Hartford, Conn.: Transcendental Books, 1970).
  • Celia Millward and Cecelia Tichi, "Whatever Happened to Hiawatha? " Genre, 6 (September 1973): 313-332.
  • George Monteiro, "Introduction," in The Poetical Works of Longfellow (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975), pp. xvii-xxvii.
  • Paul Morin, Les Sources de l'Oeuvre de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Paris: E. Larose, 1913).
  • Howard Nemerov, "Introduction," in Longfellow: Selected Poetry (New York: Dell, 1959), pp. 7-26.
  • Chase S. and Stellanova Osborn, Schoolcraft, Longfellow, Hiawatha (Lancaster, Pa.: Jaques Cattell Press, 1942); abridged as "Hiawatha" with Its Original Indian Legends (Lancaster, Pa.: Jaques Cattell Press, 1944).
  • Papers Presented at the Longfellow Commemorative Conference, April 1-3, 1982, coordinated by the National Park Service (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982).
  • Thomas H. Pauly, "Outre-Mer and Longfellow's Quest for a Career," New England Quarterly, 50 (March 1977): 30-52.
  • Norman Holmes Pearson, "Both Longfellows," University of Kansas City Review, 16 (Summer 1950): 245-253.
  • John Seelye, "Attic Shape: Dusting Off Evangeline," Virginia Quarterly Review, 60 (Winter 1984): 21-44.
  • Edmund Clarence Stedman, Poets of America (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885).
  • Richard Henry Stoddard, "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow," in The Homes and Haunts of Our Elder Poets (New York: Appleton, 1881), pp. 67-104.
  • M. Brook Taylor, "The Poetry and Prose of History: Evangeline and the Historians of Nova Scotia," Journal of Canadian Studies, 23 (Spring-Summer 1988): 46-67.
  • W. S. Tryon, "Nationalism and International Copyright: Tennyson and Longfellow in America," American Literature, 24 (March 1952): 301-309.
  • Edward L. Tucker, "References in Longfellow's Journals (1856-1882) to His Important Literary Works," in Studies in the American Renaissance, edited by Joel Myerson (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994), pp. 289-345.
  • Tucker, The Shaping of Longfellow's John Endicott: A Textual History Including Two Early Versions (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985).
  • S. Ullmann, "Composite Metaphors in Longfellow's Poetry," Review of English Studies, 18 (April 1942): 219-228.
  • John Van Schaick Jr., The Characters in "Tales of a Wayside Inn" (Boston: Universalist Publishing House, 1939).
  • Edward Wagenknecht, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: His Poetry and Prose (New York: Ungar, 1986).
  • Hyatt H. Waggoner, "Five New England Poets: The Shape of Things to Come," in his American Poets from the Puritans to the Present (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968), pp. 33-85.
  • Cecil B. Williams, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (New York: Twayne, 1964).
  • Thomas Wortham, "William Cullen Bryant and the Fireside Poets," in Columbia Literary History of the United States, edited by Emory Elliott (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988), pp. 278-288.