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...tone-poem Finlandia, Jean Sibelius' most popular composition is a little descriptive piece called The Swan of Tuonela. Written in 1893, The Swan of Tuonela was originally part of a suite of four tone-poems illustrating the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, on which U. S. word-poet Longfellow modeled his Hiawatha. Of this suite only The Swan of Tuonela, and another, noisier fragment called Lemminkäinen's Homecoming have been published and performed. The manuscripts of the other two fragments were lost...
World War I drove Charles Austin Beard, dean of U. S. historians, from the faculty of Columbia University. He was then militantly anti-German and prowar, but in October 1917 he resigned from the University because it had fired Pacifists James McKeen Cattell and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana. Said he: "The University is ... under the control of a small and active group of trustees who . . . are reactionary and visionless in politics and narrow and medieval in religion...
...still President and the War of 1812 was drawing to its close. The last was written in 1881, when Emerson's mind was beginning to dim. He could no longer spell the simplest words, recall the simplest names. "He was a good man," he said standing at Longfellow's bier, "I cannot remember his name." To Sam Bradford, "oldest of friends," he says in a last letter, "I have ceased to write, because the pen refuses to spell...
...later, the publisher was as "sick of his writings as I am of him." But before he was fired Poe had skyrocketed the circulation from 600 to 5,500, and the Messenger had become the most famed Southern literary magazine of all time. With such famed foreign contributors as Longfellow, Thackeray, John Quincy Adams, it survived until June 1864. (By that time the subscription price had jumped from $5 to $15 a year, Confederate money.) But when its printers were called to defend Richmond, the Southern Literary Messenger suspended publication...
...handy men, rather than poets or philosophers. His curriculum excludes all but "useful" subjects. Thus, his schools teach no foreign language, no art but the utilitarian, no literature for its own sake. Fond of moral precepts such as abound in the McGuffey Readers, Henry Ford values as literature Longfellow's The Village Blacksmith, because of its message. He likes to read to children these McGuffey verses...