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    Greetings from Longfellow
    Greetings from Longfellow
    Greetings from Longfellow
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    Greetings from Longfellow

    By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Greetings from Longfellow
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was an American poet. Born in Portland, Maine, Longfellow excelled in reading and writing from a young age, becoming fluent in Latin as an adolescent and publishing his first poem at the age of thirteen. In 1822, Longfellow enrolled at Bowdoin College, where he formed a lifelong friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne and published poems and stories in local magazines and newspapers. Graduating in 1825, Longfellow was offered a position at Bowdoin as a professor of modern languages before embarking on a journey throughout Europe. He returned home in 1829 to begin teaching and working as the college’s librarian. During this time, he began working as a translator of French, Italian, and Spanish textbooks, eventually publishing a translation of Jorge Manrique, a major Castilian poet of the fifteenth century. In 1836, after a period abroad and the death of his wife Mary, Longfellow accepted a professorship at Harvard, where he taught modern languages while writing the poems that would become Voices of the Night (1839), his debut collection. That same year, Longfellow published Hyperion: A Romance, a novel based partly on his travels and the loss of his wife. In 1843, following a prolonged courtship, Longfellow married Fanny Appleton, with whom he would have six children. That decade proved fortuitous for Longfellow’s life and career, which blossomed with the publication of Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847), an epic poem that earned him a reputation as one of America’s leading writers and allowed him to develop the style that would flourish in The Song of Hiawatha (1855). But tragedy would find him once more. In 1861, an accident led to the death of Fanny and plunged Longfellow into a terrible depression. Although unable to write original poetry for several years after her passing, he began work on the first American translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy and increased his public support of abolitionism. Both steeped in tradition and immensely popular, Longfellow’s poetry continues to be read and revered around the world.

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      Title: Greetings from Longfellow

      Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

      Release Date: November 4, 2007 [eBook #23332]

      Language: English

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      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GREETINGS FROM LONGFELLOW***

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      Sail on, O Ship of State!

      Sail on, O Union, strong and great!

      Humanity with all its fears,

      With all the hopes of future years,

      Is hanging breathless on thy fate!

      We know what Master laid thy keel,

      What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel,

      Who made each mast, and sail, and rope,

      What anvils rang, what hammers beat,

      In what a forge and what a heat

      Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!

      Fear not each sudden sound and shock,

      ’T is of

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