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1873 AD (search for this): chapter 19
Chapter 18: birds of passage Longfellow had always a ready faculty for grouping his shorter poems in volumes, and had a series continuing indefinitely under the name of Birds of Passage, which in successive flights were combined with longer works. The first was contained in the volume called The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858); the second in Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863); flight the third appeared in connection with Aftermath (1873); flight the fourth in Masque of Pandora and Other Poems (1875), and flight the fifth in Keramos and Other Poems (1878). These short poems stand representative of his middle life, as Voices of the Night and Ballads did for the earlier; and while the maturer works have not, as a whole, the fervor and freshness of the first, they have more average skill of execution. The Tales of a Wayside Inn was the final grouping of several stories which had accumulated upon him, large and small, and finally demanded a title-page in common. Some of them had b
1872 AD (search for this): chapter 19
s was the case with Tennyson's Crossing the Bar. Apart from these, it may be truly said that the little volume called Flower de Luce was the last collection published by him which recalled his earlier strains. His volume Ultima Thule appeared in 1880, and In the Harbor, classed as a second part to it, but issued by others after his death. With these might be placed, though not with any precision, the brief tragedy of Judas Maccabaeus, which had been published in the Three Books of Song, in 1872; and the unfinished fragment, Michael Angelo, which was found in his desk after death. None of his dramatic poems showed him to be on firm ground in respect to this department of poesy, nor can they, except the Golden Legend, be regarded as altogether successful literary undertakings. It is obvious that historic periods differ wholly in this respect; and all we can say is that while quite mediocre poets were good dramatists in the Elizabethan period, yet good poets have usually failed as d
1858 AD (search for this): chapter 19
Chapter 18: birds of passage Longfellow had always a ready faculty for grouping his shorter poems in volumes, and had a series continuing indefinitely under the name of Birds of Passage, which in successive flights were combined with longer works. The first was contained in the volume called The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858); the second in Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863); flight the third appeared in connection with Aftermath (1873); flight the fourth in Masque of Pandora and Other Poems (1875), and flight the fifth in Keramos and Other Poems (1878). These short poems stand representative of his middle life, as Voices of the Night and Ballads did for the earlier; and while the maturer works have not, as a whole, the fervor and freshness of the first, they have more average skill of execution. The Tales of a Wayside Inn was the final grouping of several stories which had accumulated upon him, large and small, and finally demanded a title-page in common. Some of them had b
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