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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Male : Poet. Married Mary Potter in 1831 (died 1835) & Frances Appleton in 1843.
Nationality : American Place of Birth : Portland, Maine

Date of Birth : 1807 Date of Death : 1882 Age : 75

Other Work : Smith Professor of Modern Languages at Harvard 1836-54

Education : Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
1832-1840
Saggi de Novellieri Italiani
(1832 Presso Gray & Bowen, Boston)
(Ed) Coplas de Don Jorge Manrique (1833 Wm D Ticknor, Boston)
Outre-Mer : A Pilgrimage beyond the Sea
(1835 Harper NY) - 2 vols. Anon
Elements of French Grammar by M L'Homond
(1837 Glozier, Masters & Smith)
Voices of the Night
(1839 John Owen, Cambridge, Mass)
Hyperion : A Romance
(1839 Samuel Colman, NY) - 2 vols
Offered in 1999 for £335

1841-1850
Ballads & other Poems
(1842)
The Spanish Student : A Play in 3 Acts
(1843 John Owen)
(Ed) The Poets and Poetry of Europe (1845 Carey & Hart, Phila)
The Belfy of Bruges & Other Poems
(1846 John Owen, Cambridge, Mass)
Evangeline
(1847) (1854 David Bogue - Birket Foster, Jane Benham, Gilbert )
The Estray
(1847 Wm D Ticknor, Boston)
Kavanagh : A Tale
(1849 Ticknor, Reed & Fields) (1858 W Kent - Birket Foster )
The Seaside and the Fireside
(1850 Ticknor, Reed & Fields) (c1850 Walker, Liverpool. 2nd Ed)

1851-1860
The Golden Legend
(1851 Ticknor, Reed & Fields) (1854 D Bogue - Birket Foster, Jane Benham )
The New Guide to Quebec and Its Environs
(1851 Sinclair, Quebec)
Poems
(1852) (1852 D Bogue - Birket Foster, Jane Benham )
The Song of Hiawatha
(1855 Bogue, London) (1855 Ticknor & Fields)
Poems
(1856 Ricknor & Fields. New Ed) - 2 vols
Poetical Works
(1856 David Bogue) - Birket Foster, Jane Benham
The Courtship of Miles Standish & Other Poems
(1858 W Kent, London)
(1858 Ticknor & Fields) - Birket Foster
The Courtship of Miles Standish & Other Poems
(1859 Routledge) - John Gilbert
Gifts of Genius
(1859 Davenport NY)
The Song of Hiawatha
(1860 Kent) - G Thomas

1861-1870
(Trans) Dante's Divina Commedia (1865-7)
Tales of a Wayside Inn
(1863 Ticknor & Fields) (1864 Warne & Routledge)
The Poetical Works of ....
(Complete Edition) (1864 Routledge, Warne & Routledge)
- John Gilbert, et al
Household Poems
(1865 Ticknor & Fields)
Poems : Chandos Poets edition
(1867 Warne) - designs by William Small & A B Houghton
The New England Tragedies
(1868 Ticknor & Fields)
Poetical Works
(1869 Warne) - North, Cooper, Houghton
The Building of the Ship
(1870 Fields, Osgood, Boston)

1871-1880
The Divine Tragedy
(1871 Osgood)
Christus
(1872) (1873 Osgood. First One Vol Ed)
Three Books of Song
(1872 Osgood) (1872 Routledge)
Aftermath
(1873 Osgood) (1873 Routledge)
The Masque of Pandora & other Poems
(1875 Osgood) (1875 Routledge)
The Hanging of the Crane
(1875 Osgood, Boston)
(Ed) Poems of Places (1876 Boston) - 4 vols
(Ed) Poems of Places : Scotland (1877 Boston) - 3 vols
The Skeleton in Armor
(1877 Osgood)
(Ed) Poems of Places : England & Wales (1877 Macmillan)
From My Armchair : To the Children of Cambridge
(1879 Cambridge)
Ultima Thule
(1880 Houghton Mifflin) - 2000

After 1881
In the Harbor
(1882 Houghton Mifflin)
The Poetical Works
(1888 Houghton Mifflin : Riverside Edition) - 11 vols
The Song of Hiawatha
(1891 Harrap) - Frederick Remington, Maxfield Parrish & N C Wyeth
The Golden Legend
(nd. c1894 Hodder & Stoughton) - Sidney H Meteyard
Nature Poems
(1895 Ward, Lock & Bowden) - Paul de Longpre
Evangeline : A Tale of Acadie
(1897 Gay & Bird, London) - Violet Oakley & Jessie Wilcox Smith
The Singers
(1898 Elkin Mathews 2/6) + Edition de Luxe of 40 (10/6) . Signed by Arthur Robertson
Evangeline : A Tale of Acadie
(1905 Bobbs-Merrill) (c1905 Nister) - H C Christy
Evangeline : A Tale of Acadie
(c1905 Nister) - Arthur Dixon
The Song of Hiawatha
(1906 Bobbs Merrill) - Harrison Fisher
The Hanging of the Crane
(1907 Boston) - 1000. Arthur I Keller
The Golden Legend
(1910 Hodder & Stoughton) - 250 signed by Sidney Meteyard
Miles Standish by H W Longfellow
(1911 Elkin Mathews Vigo Cabinet Series No 88. 1/-)
Hiawatha
(1911 Houghton Mifflin) (1911 Harrap)
- frontis N C Wyeth, Frederick Remington & Maxfield Parrish

READING
Beverly Chew : The Longfellow Collectors' Handbook - A Bibliography of First Editions
(1885 Wm Evarts Benjamin, NY) - Anon. 250
Samuel Longfellow : Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1886-7 Ticknor, Boston) - 3 vols
T W Higginson : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1902 Houghton Mifflin)
Cecil B Williams : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1964)
E L Hirsch : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(91964)
Eric S Robertson : Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1972)