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Samuel Longfellow (June 18, 1819 – October 3, 1892) was an American clergyman and hymn writer.
Biography
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Samuel Longfellow was born June 18, 1819, in Portland, Maine , the last of eight children of Stephen and Zilpah (Wadsworth) Longfellow.[1] Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . He studied at Bowdoin College in 1833.[2] Portland Academy and then Harvard College , where he graduated in 1839 ranked eighth in a class of 61.[3] Harvard Divinity School , where his classmates included Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Samuel Johnson , with whom he would later collaborate in his hymn writing.
He is considered part of the second-generation of transcendentalists ;[4] Unitarian pastor, he adapted the transcendental philosophy he had encountered in divinity school into his hymns and sermons.
Longfellow served as a gym leader in Fall River, Massachusetts (1848), Brooklyn's Second Unitarian Church (1853), and Germantown, Pennsylvania (1878-1882). After his older brother's death, Longfellow published a two-volume biography of him in 1886.[5] Craigie House in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[6] American Philosophical Society .[7]
His other publications include Final Memories of H. W. Longfellow (1887), Vespers (1859), A Book of Hymns and Tunes (1860, revised 1876) and, with Samuel Johnson, he edited A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (1846) and Hymns of the Spirit (1864).[6] Western Cemetery in Portland's West End .
Personal life
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Throughout his life Longfellow had romantic friendships with men, and struggled with his sexuality, writing in 1837 of one such companion, William Winter: "I don’t think I have made a greater sacrifice of inclination to a sense of duty - but not a hearty one - I was reluctant then; I have been sorry at times ever since. It was a strange infatuation. And yet after all my fears might we not have been happy together? I loved him, and think he liked me."[8] [9] Morton Fullerton .[10]
Selected bibliography
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A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion, 1846, edited with Samuel Johnson . The collection was enlarged and revised in 1860.
Thalatta: a Book for the Seaside, with Thomas W. Higginson, 1853
Vespers, 1859
The Poem of Niagata, 1861
Hymns of the Spirit, 1864 (jointly edited with Samuel Johnson)
The Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1886
Memoir and Letters, 1894
References
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^ Abdo, Joseph C. The Quiet Radical: The Biography of Samuel Longfellow . Lisbon, Portugal: Tenth Island Editions, 2008: 24. ISBN 9789729985829
^ General Catalogue of Bowdoin College 1794-1950, page 76
^ Abdo, Joseph C. The Quiet Radical: The Biography of Samuel Longfellow . Lisbon, Portugal: Tenth Island Editions, 2008: 56. ISBN 9789729985829
^ Gura, Philip F. American Transcendentalism: A History . New York: Hill and Wang, 2007: 8. ISBN 0-8090-3477-8
^ Wayne, Tiffany. Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism . New York: Facts on File, 2006: 169. ISBN 978-0-8160-5626-2
^ a b McKim, LindaJo H. The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion . Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993: 228. ISBN 0-664-25180-3
^ "APS Member History" . search.amphilsoc.org . Retrieved May 12, 2021 .
^ National Park Service, A Sacrifice of Inclination: Samuel Longfellow
^ Edward Everett Hale, Five Prophets of Today , Boston, 1892, p50.
^ "William Morton Fullerton to Walt Whitman, 1 August 1887 (Correspondence) - the Walt Whitman Archive" .
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