Samuel Longfellow

Samuel Longfellow

Infobox Person
name = Samuel Longfellow



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birth_date = June 18, 1819
birth_place = Portland, Maine, USA
death_date = Oc­to­ber 3, 1892
death_place = Cape Elizabeth, Maine, USA
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resting_place = West­ern Cem­e­te­ry, Port­land, Maine, USA
nationality = American
education = Harvard College, Harvard Divinity School
occupation = Clergyman and hymn writer
religion = Unitarian
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relatives = Brother of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Samuel Longfellow (1819-1892) was an American clergyman and hymn writer.

Biography

Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine to Stephen and Zilpah (Wadsworth) Longfellow; he is the younger brother of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He attended Harvard College and Harvard Divinity School, where his classmates included Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Samuel Johnson; he would later collaborate with Johnson in his hymn-writing. He is considered part of the second-generation of transcendentalists; [Gura, Philip F. "American Transcendentalism: A History". New York: Hill and Wang, 2007: 8. ISBN 0-8090-3477-8] after becoming a Unitarian pastor, he adapted the Transcendental philosophy he had encountered in divinity school into his hymns and sermons. He served as a pastor in Fall River, Massachusetts (1848), Brooklyn, New York (1853), and Germantown, Pennsylvania (1860).

elected bibliography

*"A Book of Hymns for Pub­lic and Pri­vate De­vo­tion," 1846, joint­ly ed­it­ed with Sam­u­el John­son. This col­lect­ion was en­larged and re­vised in 1860.
*"Thalatta: a Book for the Sea­side," with Thom­as W. Hig­gin­son, 1853
*"Vespers," 1859
*"Hymns of the Spir­it," 1864 (joint­ly ed­it­ed with Sam­u­el John­son)
*"The Life of Hen­ry Wads­worth Long­fel­low," 1886
*"Memoir and Letters," 1894

References

External links

*Longfellow's [http://books.google.com/books?id=PxI3AAAAIAAJ Memoir and Letters] at Google Books (full-text, public domain)
*http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/l/o/n/longfellow_s.htm
*http://www.alcott.net/alcott/home/champions/Longfellow.html
*http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-E-LongfellS.html


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