The Letters Of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow V1 4

Author : Samuel Longfellow
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849626504
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Life Of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Volume 1 written by Samuel Longfellow and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the biography of a man of letters. Mr. Longfellow was not that exclusively, but he was that supremely. He touched life at many points; and certainly he was no bookworm or dry-as-dust scholar shut up in a library. He kept the doors of his study always open, both literally and figuratively. But literature, as it was his earliest ambition, was always his most real interest; it was his constant point of view; it was his chosen refuge. His very profession was a literary one. Now, the life of a man of letters needs be unexciting and uneventful in the eyes of men of activities and affairs. In such a life, a new book is a great adventure, a new poem or tale a chief event. Such a life can be painted only by a multitude of minute touches. For this reason, and because it was desirable that he should tell his own story as far as possible, a large part of this biography is made up of extracts from a daily journal. By such a method could the reader best learn how a man of letters spends his time, and what occupies his thoughts. This is volume 1, covering the years 1807 through 1842.