Literary Giant: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 发布时间：2007-8-15 21:27:18
The years following were filled with honors. 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 chosen a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and of the Spanish Academy.When it became necessary to remove "the spreading chestnut tree" of Brattle Street, which Longfellow had written about in his 'Village Blacksmith', the children of Cambridge gave their pennies to build a chair out of the tree and gave it to Longfellow. He died on March 24, 1882. "Of all the suns of the New England morning," says Van Wyck Brooks, "he was the largest in his golden sweetness." While Poe was exploring the unhappy depths of the inner; poetry of HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882) directly to the hearts of ordinary Americans. Part of his pop came from saying — and saying beautifully — exactly the thin; Americans wanted to hear. As if to answer Poe, he recommits active, healthy life: Life is real! Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal. . In poems like A Psalm of Life (1838), he expresses the hard optimistic philosophy of his countrymen: Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined-^ end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today. He encourages idealism. The metaphor is that of a young man climbing a mountain in the Alps. A terrible storm is coming but this does not stop him. When a beautiful maiden invites him to rest with her, he does not stop, but climbs higher: A tear stood in his bright blue eye, but still he answered, with a sigh, Excelsior Climb higher Few people today can enjoy this sort of sentimentalism. It is more funny, now, than inspiring4. But when he turns to American history, he ma 上一页 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] 下一页
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