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Title: Home school of American literature:
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Birdsall, William Wilfred, 1854-1909, (from old catalog) comp. and ed Jones, Rufus Matthew, 1863- (from old catalog) joint comp. and ed
Subjects: American literature English literature
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., Elliott publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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I HENRY WADSWOKTH LONGFELLOW. 59 The poet went to school with Nathaniel P. Willis and other boys who at an early-age were thinking more of verse making than of pleasure. He graduated at Bow-doin College in 1825 with Nathaniel Hawthorne, John S. C. Abbott, and otherswho afterwards attained to fame. Almost immediately after his graduation he wasrequested to take the chair of Modern Languages and Literature in his alma mater,which he accepted; but before entering upon his duties spent three years in Ger-many, France, Spain and Italy to further perfect himself in the languages andliterature of those nations. At Bowdoin College Longfellow remained as Professorof Modern Languages and Literature until 1835, when he accepted a similar posi-tion in Harvard University, which he continued to occupy until 1854, when he
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THE WAYSIDE INN.Scene of Longfellows Famous Tales of the Wayside Inn. resigned, devoting the remainder of his life to literary work and to the enjoymentof the association of such friends as Charles Sumner the statesman, Hawthorne theromancer, Louis Agassiz the great naturalist, and James Bussell Lowell, the brotherpoet who succeeded to the chair of Longfellow in Harvard University on the lattersresignation. The home of Longfellow was not only a delightful place to visit on account ofthe cordial welcome extended by the companionable poet, but for its historic asso-ciations as well; for it was none other than the old Cragie House which hadbeen Washingtons headquarters during the Revolutionary War, the past traditionand recent hospitality of which have been well told by G. W. Curtis in his Homesof American Authors. It was here that Longfellow surrounded himself with a 60 HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. II magnificent library, and within these walls he composed all of his famous produc-tions

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