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Shortly after his marriage in 1831 Longfellow began to publish in the New England Magazine the sketches of travel that afterwards were collected, with the addition of others, and published under the title Outre-Mer in 1835. It was his first independent contribution to American literature, preceded by some text books and translations.
Though often called a novel, Outre-Mer is a long, rambling narrative (of comments on travels in France, Spain & Italy) much more along the lines of Irving's Sketch Book. In its pleasant mingling of the record of personal experience, with essays on literature, translations, and romantic stories, and in the ease and grace of its style, it is a worthy prelude and introduction to his later more important work.
Outre-Mer was published the same year that Longfellow's wife died while they were traveling together in Europe. Upon his return to America he took up residence in Cambridge, where he succeeded George Ticknor as Smith Professor of Modern Languages at Harvard.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in 1807 in Portland, Maine, and he became a professor of modern languages at Harvard. His most famous narrative poems include The Song of Hiawatha, Paul Reveres Ride, "The Village Blacksmith," "The Wreck of the Hesperus." From his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne, Longfellow got a brief outline of a story from which he composed one of his most favorite poems, 'Evangeline'. The original story had Evangeline wandering about New England in search of her bridegroom. One of the first poets to take the landscape and stories of North America as his subjects, Longfellow became immensely popular all over the world, and he was the first American commemorated in the Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey. He was given honorary degrees at the great universities of Oxford and Cambridge, invited to Windsor by Queen Victoria, and called by request upon the Prince of Wales. He was also chosen a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and of the Spanish Academy. He died on March 24, 1882.
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- PublisherUniv Pr of the Pacific
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0898759161
- ISBN 13 9780898759167
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages280
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