The White Mr. Longfellow (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
1775
The White Mr. Longfellow (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
1775
The White Mr. Longfellow, written by William Dean Howells and first published in 1775, is a reflective tribute to the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This work captures the literary atmosphere of late 19th-century Cambridge, Massachusetts, highlighting Howells' experiences with Longfellow and his circle of influential writers, including James Russell Lowell and Charles Eliot Norton. The narrative explores themes of friendship and intellectual camaraderie, offering an intimate portrait of Longfellow's character and his significant contributions to American literature.
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“It was not a particularly sane spectacle, that impatience to be off to some place that lay not only in the distance, but also in the future”
— William Dean Howells
“It seems to me a proof of the small advance our race has made in true wisdom, that we find it so hard to give up doing anything we have meant to do.””
— William Dean Howells
