Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807.2.27-1882.3.24)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807.2.27-1882.3.24)生平简介，荣誉，主要作品，写作风格，作品分析

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807.2.27-1882.3.24)

• Honour
  • American poet, linguist, educator, dramatist, translator, travel writer, and one of America's fireside poets.
  • Honorary degrees from prestigious colleges and universities, including Cambridge and Oxford.
  • He is one of the most successful writers in the United States and his reputation in England is on a par with Tennyson's.
  • The first American poet to achieve a good international reputation. He received a private audience with Queen Victoria.
  • A bust of him was placed in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey, the first American writer to be so honored.
  • The first English poem translated into Chinese was Longfellow's A Psalm of Life.
• Life
  • 1807.2.27
    • Born in Portland, Maine.
    • His grandfather was a member of the American Revolutionary War and Congress.
    • His father, the best lawyer in Portland, sent him to Bowdoin College to study law.
    • At school, he showed great aptitude for languages.
  • 1820
    • Longfellow published his first poem in a local newspaper in 1820 at the age of 13.
  • 1821
    • he entered Bodoin College, where he was a classmate of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
  • 1825
    • graduated, traveled to France, Spain, Italy, and Germany, studying the languages and literature of these countries. (Mostly romantic literature.)
  • 1829
    • became professor of modern philology and librarian at Bedoin College.
  • 1831
    • He married Mary Sture Porter of Portland while teaching at Bowdoin University.
  • 1833-1835
    • wrote a romantic prose work called "The Overseas Journey" based on Owen's "Notes on Seeing and Learning".
  • 1835
    • went to Europe mainly to improve his German. During his second trip to Europe, his wife died of miscarriage.
  • 1836
    • became professor of linguistics at Harvard University.
    • Then he married Fanny Appleton, a Boston heiress whom he had known at home.
    • They had six children.
  • 1838
    • first collection of poems, published, was called "The Night Sings."
  • 1839
    • published his romantic prose work, Schuperion, a prose saga reflecting his sojourn in Germany.
    • The book's explicit description of his meeting with his wife strained their relationship.
  • 1841
    • Ballads and Others was published.
  • 1842
    • published a lyrical poem called "The Psalms of Slavery"
  • 1845
    • edited and published the book European Poets and Poems.
  • 1847
    • published the poem Ivan Jilin
    • which described the mistreatment of the French-Canadian colonists by the British army and expressed his deep feelings.
  • 1854
    • resigned from the Harvard faculty to devote himself to writing.
  • 1855
    • The Song of Hiawatha was published, which established the author as a poet.
  • 1858
    • published The Proposal of Miles Standish
  • 1861
    • Mrs. Longfellow died from a fatal burn while perming her daughter's hair.
    • That same year, the country descended into civil war, and his younger son, Charlie, went off to fight without his consent.
  • 1867
    • Dante's translation of the Divine Comedy was published.
  • 1868-1869
    • traveled to Europe again, where he was awarded various degrees by Cambridge and Oxford, and received cordially by Queen Victoria.
  • 1882.3.24
    • died of peritonitis in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Writing Style
  • simplicity, directness, musically, gentleness, sweetness, purity, sentimentally and moralization.
  • Characters: from all walks of life.
  • Major themes: idealized vision of world and life.
  • Poetic techniques: traditional.
  • His writings belong to the milder aspects of the romantic movement.
  • his work untouched the religious and social struggles.
• Major Works
  • Lyrics
    • Voices of the Night (1839) 《夜吟》 (1839)
    • A Psalm of Life (1839)《人生礼赞》 (1839)
    • The Slave's Dream 《奴隶的梦》(1842)
    • Ballads and Other Poems《歌谣及其他》(1842)
    • Poems on Slavery《奴制度诗篇》(1842 )
  • Long poems
    • Evangeline's poem "Ivan Jilin" (1847) 《伊凡吉林》
    • The Song of Hiawatha (1855) 《海华沙之歌》
    • The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858) 《迈尔斯•斯坦狄什的求婚》
    • My Lost Youth (1855) 《我逝去的青春》
  • Drama
    • Michael Angelo《迈克尔安吉洛》
  • Translation
    • Divine comedy (1867) 《神曲》
• A Psalm of Life
  • Honour
    • one of favorite poems of Americans inthe 19 century.
    • his first poem was translated into Chinese.
  • Theme
    • The life is short while the art should be eternal.
    • Life is a struggle .We should be brave of facing each challenge , not afraid of the unknown future.
    • The dream couldn't be accomplished without the actions being put now.
    • Human should not fear of the death, but be always moving forward and cherish the time.
  • Rhyme
    • abab
  • Meter
    • iambic tetrameter
  • Beauty of Phonology
    • Alliteration
    • Assonance
  • Beauty of Figurative Language
    • Allusion
    • Metaphor and Simile
    • Hyperbole
  • Parallelism
  • Repetition
  • Cohesion and Coherence
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