Nationality American Parents Stephen Longfellow Role Writer | Name Samuel Longfellow | |
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Books Hymns and verses, A Book of Hymns and Tunes Siblings Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Grandparents Stephen Longfellow, Patience Young Longfellow Similar People Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alice Mary Longfellow, Stephen Longfellow, Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow, Peleg Wadsworth | ||
Reading the quiet radical the biography of samuel longfellow by joseph c abdo 11 8 2015
Samuel Longfellow (1819–1892) was an American clergyman and hymn writer.
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- Reading the quiet radical the biography of samuel longfellow by joseph c abdo 11 8 2015
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soft power samuel longfellow by rev kent matthies 11 8 2015
Biography
Samuel Longfellow was born June 18, 1819, in Portland, Maine, the last of eight children of Stephen and Zilpah (Wadsworth) Longfellow. His older brother was the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He attended Harvard College and graduated in 1839 ranked eighth in a class of 61. He went on to study at 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; after becoming a 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. He wrote the book while living at his brother's former home, Craigie House in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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 Hmyns for Public and Private Devotion (1846) and Hymns of the Spirit (1864). Longfellow died in 1892 and is buried in Western Cemetery in Portland's West End.