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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Born: February 27, 1807 - Died: March 24, 1882)
American educator and poet.
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- Review of Outre-Mer (June 1835, text “A” — Southern Literary Messenger)
- Review of Hyperion, a Romance (October 1839, text “A” — Burton’s)
- Review of Voices of the Night (February 1840, text “A” — Burton’s)
- “Tennyson vs Longfellow” (February 12, 1840, text “A” — Alexander’s Weekly Messenger)
- Review of Ballads and other Poems
- Review of Ballads and other Poems - part I (March 1842, text “A” — Graham’s)
- Review of Ballads and other Poems - part II (April 1842, text “A” — Graham’s)
- “Longfellow’s Ballads” (1850, text “B” — Works)
- The Little Longfellow War (See also “Tennyson vs Longfellow,” above.)
- Part I - Review of The Waif
- “Longfellow’s Waif” (part I) (January 13, 1845, text “A” — Evening Mirror)
- “Longfellow’s Waif” (part II) (January 14, 1845, text “A” — Evening Mirror)
- “Longfellow’s Waif” (Part III) (January 20, 1845, text “A” — Evening Mirror) (includes letter by “H” and Poe’s “Post Notes by the Critic.”)
- Review of The Waif - (parts I & II) (January 25, 1845, text “B” — Weekly Mirror)
- Letter by “H” and Post Notes by the Critic (January 25, 1845, text “B” — Weekly Mirror)
- Part II - Imitation -- Plargiarism
- “Imitation -- Plagiarism -- Mr. Poe’s Reply to the Letter of Outis . . .” (March 8, 1845, text “A” — Broadway Journal) (Includes the reply of “Outis” from the Evening Mirror, March 1, 1845)
- “A Continuation of the Voluminous History of the Little Longfellow War . . .” (March 15, 1845, text “A” — Broadway Journal)
- “More of the Voluminous History of the Little Longfellow War . . .” (March 22, 1845, text “A” — Broadway Journal)
- “Imitation — Plagiarism — The conclusion of Mr. Poe’s Reply to the Letter of Outis” (March 29, 1845, text “A” — Broadway Journal)
- “Imitation — Plagiarism — Postscript” (April 5, 1845, text “A” — Broadway Journal)
- Part III - “Longfellow’s Poems” (April 1845, text “A” — Aristidean) (With a woodcut embellishment by F. O. C. Darley) (This article is probably a collaborative work, based heavily on material provided by Poe, but reworked in its final form by Thomas Dunn English. The article is attributed to Poe by the table of contents for volume I of the Aristidean. It is fully attributed to Poe, as certain, by William D. Hull in his 1941 dissertation on the Poe Canonn of Poe’s Criticism, although a portion of the discussion appears to be lacking in the original. In The Poe Log, Thomas and Jackson attribute this article as, “unsigned but written by the editor Thomas Dunn English, apparently after some consultation with Poe” (The Poe Log, 1987, p. 529). In reviewing the Aristidean in the Broadway Journal, Poe makes the curious comment, “There is a long review or rather running commentary upon Longfellow’s poems. It is, perhaps, a little coarse, but we are not disposed to call it unjust; although there are in it some opinions which, by implication, are attributed to ourselves individiually, and with which we cannot altogether coincide,” Broadway Journal, May 3, 1845, p. 285, col. 1. In the notes to his edition of Poe’s writings in the Broadway Journal, Pollin does not provide an extended discussion, but at least implies that the Aristidean artcile is “by Poe himself, with a mention of the BJ,” The Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. IV: Broadway Journal, Annotations 1986, 4:83.)
- “Mr. Longfellow and Other Plagiarists” (1850, text “B” — Works)
- Part I - Review of The Waif
- Notice from “Autography”
- “H. W. Longfellow” (“A Chapter on Autography” - part I) — November 1841 — Graham’s Magazine
- “The American Drama” (includes a review of Longfellow’s “The
Spanish Student”)
- “The American Drama” (August 1845, text “A” — American Whig Review)
- “Mr. Longfellow, Mr. Willis and the American Drama” (1850, text “B” — Works)
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- E. A. Poe to H. W. Longfellow - May 3, 1841 (OL#110)
- H. W. Longfellow to E. A. Poe - May 19, 1841
- E. A. Poe to H. W. Longfellow - June 22, 1841 (OL#115)
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- Anonymous, “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,” Graham’s Magazine, May 1843, 22:288-293
- Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L., “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,” Cyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Charles Scribner, 1856, 2:443-450
- Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
- Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
- Piacentino, Edward J., “The Poe-Longfellow Plagiarism Controversy: A New Critical Notice in the Southern Chronicle,” Mississippi Quarterly, 1989, 42:173-182
- Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.
- Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, eds., Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1889, 4:10-15 (a long article as part of an entry on Stephen Longfellow)
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