. One year course in English and American literature; an introduction to the chief authors in English and American literature, with reading lists and references for further study. hought centers init. His father sympathized ^ with him, but pointed out that literature was a very uncertain -^^WK- means of support and suggested , ^ .>NjBt the law. Fortunately a way was ~ • opened, for the authorities ofBowdoin College decided to in-troduce the modern languagesin their course, and offered Long-fellow the professorship if hewould prepare himself for in 1826 he sailed for Europe, UV^C^^^^jJ
. One year course in English and American literature; an introduction to the chief authors in English and American literature, with reading lists and references for further study. hought centers init. His father sympathized ^ with him, but pointed out that literature was a very uncertain -^^WK- means of support and suggested , ^ .>NjBt the law. Fortunately a way was ~ • opened, for the authorities ofBowdoin College decided to in-troduce the modern languagesin their course, and offered Long-fellow the professorship if hewould prepare himself for in 1826 he sailed for Europe, UV^C^^^^jJw^*-^where he remained three years, studying the languages and literature of Germany, France,Spain, and Italy. Returning to America, he took up hiswork as a teacher with enthusiasm, writing text-books andmaking many translations that he might reveal the beautiesof foreign literature to his countrymen. His work at Bowdoin was so successful that in 1834 hewas called to a similar position at Harvard. Again hewent abroad for study, and in 1835 his first great sorrowcame to him, the death of his wife, the being beauteous of his poem Footsteps of Angels. In 1836 he took up his. 172 THE NEW ENGLAND GROUP work at Harvard, work which he continued for nearlytwenty years. In the meantime his pen was not idle. The Voices ofthe Night appeared in 1839, and in 1841 Ballads and OtherPoems, which contained The Wreck of the Hesperus, TheRainy Day, The Village Blacksmith, and Excelsior. His firstlong poem, Evangeline, appeared in 1847, and from this timeLongfellow was easily the most popular American 1843 ne married Miss Frances Appleton and madehis home in the Craigie house, Cambridge, which is nowknown as the Longfellow house. Feeling that his collegework interfered with his writing, he resigned his professor-ship in 1854. The next year he published The Song ofHiawatha, a re-telling of Indian legends, written in a pecul-iar meter which Longfellow imitated from the Swedish. In 1861 the
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