Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Poets & Poetry of Europe Massive Book 1845 Rare 

Title page reads:

The Poets and Poetry of Europe with Introductions and Biographical Notes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Published by Carey and Hart, Philadelphia M.DCCC.XLV (1845).

Poets and poetry are grouped by region: Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic, Danish, Swedish, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Besides many anonymous works and folk ballads such as Beowulf, Ribot & Guldborg, Song of Hildebrand, Poems from El Cid, Poems from the Cancioneros etc., the works of many poets are profiled; poets such as: Luis de Camoens, Diogo Bernardes, Lope Felix de Vega Carpio, Jean Baptiste Louis Gresset, Marie Stuart, Charles D'Orleans, Joost Van Den Vondel, Ferdinand Freilgrath, Goethe, Johann Ludwig Uhland, Eric Johan Stagnelius, Adam Gottloe Oehlenschlager, Gil Vicente, Thomas Thaarup, and Estevan Manuel de Villegas to name only a very few.

There is an index of authors. There is a portrait of the German poet, playwright and philosopher Friedrich Schiller as a frontispiece.

This 779 page, approximately 10 by 7 inch hardcover is in fairly good condition. The pages are clear and the binding is solid. There is a personal inscription on the title page. There is some slight spotting of the frontispiece tissue guard. The embossed moiré cloth cover has some wear along the edges. The spine is missing.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy and was one of the five Fireside Poets.

Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, then part of Massachusetts, and studied at Bowdoin College. After spending time in Europe he became a professor at Bowdoin and, later, at Harvard College. His first major poetry collections were Voices of the Night (1839) and Ballads and Other Poems (1841). Longfellow retired from teaching in 1854 to focus on his writing, living the remainder of his life in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in a former headquarters of George Washington. His first wife, Mary Potter, died in 1835 after a miscarriage. His second wife, Frances Appleton, died in 1861 after sustaining burns from her dress catching fire. After her death, Longfellow had difficulty writing poetry for a time and focused on his translation. He died in 1882.

Longfellow predominantly wrote lyric poems which are known for their musicality and which often presented stories of mythology and legend. He became the most popular American poet of his day and also had success overseas. He has been criticized, however, for imitating European styles and writing specifically for the masses.... (Wikipedia)

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