Word: hiawatha
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Sever 11 was crowded last night, for Mr. Jones' reading. Mr. Jones read selections from Hiawatha, and a humorous piece from Mrs. Stowe's "Oldtown Folks...
...FRIDAY.Shakspere Club. Selections from the Song of Hiawatha. Mr. Henry Dixon Jones. Instructor in Elocution. Sever...
Friday, March 20, at 7.45, in Sever Hall.- Readings, by Mr. Henry Dixon Jones, instructor of elocution in Harvard University. Selections from the song of Hiawatha, Longfellow...
...Club and Pierian Sodality. It is a solo for a tenor voice, arranged with piano and violin accompaniment. Mr. Lilienthal, '83, will sing the solo, and Van Raalte, of Boston, will probably play the violin accompaniment. The words are the song of Wabun, the East Wind, from Longfellow's "Hiawatha." Mr. Burton's setting is often strongly suggestive of Wagner, but altogether his treatment is decidedly original. He has shown great taste and judgment in his work, which will undoubtedly meet with a deserved success...
...matter of wonder that American poets so seldom see fit to choose subjects for their work taken from the legends and history of the better specimens of the Indian tribes of this country. Longfellow's "Hiawatha" is almost the only work of any note of this sort; and the popular success of that work has been by no means inconsiderable. A carefully finished and musical poem, "The League of the Iroquois," has recently appeared from the pen of a Western poet, Benj. Hathaway; it is well spoken of by the critics, and it certainly exhibits the richness of the field...