In the last 20 years of his life, Longfellow continued to enjoy fame with honors bestowed on him in Europe and America. One of the early practitioners of self-marketing, Longfellow expanded his audience becoming one of the best-selling authors in the world. He wrote about a multitude of subjects: slavery in Poems on Slavery, literature of Europe in an anthology The Poets and Poetry of Europe, and American Indians in The Song of Hiawatha. Longfellow’s popularity seemed to grow, as did his collection of works. Due to budget cuts, he covered many of the teaching positions himself.
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Other publications followed such as Ballads and Other Poems, containing “The Wreck of the Hesperus” and the “Village Blacksmith.” During this time, Longfellow also taught full time at Harvard and directed the Modern Languages Department.
Longfellow would produce some of his best work such as Voices of the Night, a collection of poems including Hymn to the Night and A Psalm of Life, which gained him immediate popularity. His work earned him a professorship at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In addition to teaching, he published his first book Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea, a collection of travel essays on his European experience. Upon returning from Europe, because the study of foreign languages was so new in America, Longfellow had to write his own textbooks. There he developed a lifelong love of the Old World civilizations. Upon graduation, in 1825, he was offered a position to teach modern languages at Bowdoin, but on the condition that he first travel to Europe, at his own expense, to research the languages. Longfellow was an excellent student, showing proficiency in foreign languages. Among his fellow students was the writer, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Young Henry attended Portland Academy, a private school and then Bowdoin College, in Maine. His father, a prominent lawyer, expected his son would follow in his profession. Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807, in Portland, Maine, to an established New England family. He was also known for his translation of Dante’s The Divine Comedy.
He was heavily influenced by Romanticism and made a name as a poet and novelist with works like Hyperion, Evangeline, Poems on Slavery and The Song of Hiawatha. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a Harvard scholar versed in several European languages. (1807-1882) Who Was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
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