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  1. Richard Henry Stoddard summed up Longfellow’s contribution in an 1881 essay, pointing out how Longfellow remained “true to himself” and to his scholarly impulses by creating and satisfying “a taste for a literature which did not exist in this country until he began to write.”

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  2. Richard Henry Stoddard referred to the theme of the poem as a "lesson of endurance". [14] Longfellow wrote "A Psalm of Life" at the beginning of a period in which he showed an interest in the Judaic, particularly strong in the 1840s and 1850s.

  3. Richard Henry Stoddard (July 2, 1825 – May 12, 1903) was an American critic and poet.

  4. Dec 23, 2015 · Though two stanzas concerning the Civil War were removed for the carol, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” was based on the poem “Christmas Bells” written during the Civil War by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

  5. Richard Henry Stoddard referred to the theme of the poem as a “lesson of endurance”. Longfellow wrote the poem shortly after completing lectures on German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and was heavily inspired by him.

  6. Jun 1, 2020 · The answer was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Emerson was in the throes of dementia. Even so, the story seems like a small allegory of Longfellow’s disappearance from American culture.

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  8. Jul 24, 2023 · While Poe did not accuse Longfellow of plagiarizing him specifically, he considered himself a “neglected man of genius,” while casting Longfellow as a “wealthy and triumphant gentleman of elegant leisure.” Nevertheless, Poe considered himself to be Longfellow’s intellectual superior.