22 letters found
- 014 To Willem and Caroline van Stockum-Haanebeek. London, between about Thursday, 16 October and Friday, 31 October 1873.
- in note 6:
...les Standish’, a narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first appeared in 1858 in The courts...
- in translation:
...nters here; an American, he’s very fond of Longfellow, and rightly so. I know 3 paintings by him ba...
- RM03 Copied poems: H.W. Longfellow, ‘Afternoon in February’ and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ‘Three kings’ daughters fair’. Probably between December 1874 and March 1876.
- in note 1:
‘Afternoon in February’ taken from Longfellow’s volume The belfry of Bruges and other poems. Se...
- 066 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, on or about Monday, 17 January 1876.
- in note 10:
The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
- in translation:
I’d like to send you a Longfellow and ‘Andersen’s fairy tales’, I’ll see if I can find them...
- 070 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 19 February 1876.
- in note 3:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion, a romance (1839). See Longfellow 1886-1891, vol. 8, pp. 7-285.
- in translation:
...tiful things during your trip. You’ll find Longfellow in the next crate. Gladwell was here yesterda...
- 071 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Wednesday, 15 March 1876.
- in translation:
I hope I’ll get the chance to send you the Longfellow before you leave. It might be a good book to ...
- 072 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 23 March 1876.
- in translation:
Herewith the book by Longfellow, it will no doubt become a friend of yours.
...g-houses in England are often so pleasant, Longfellow describes this well in Tales of the wayside i...
- 089 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Saturday, 26 August 1876.
- in note 7:
Regarding ‘King Robert of Sicily’ by Longfellow, see letter 66, n. 12.
- in translation:
...tle matchseller’, King Robert of Sicily by Longfellow, etc. Sometimes something from Dutch history,...
- 092 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Tuesday, 3 October 1876.
- in note 1:
Taken, with several changes, from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem ‘The saga of king Olaf’ in ...
- in note 11:
Taken from H.W. Longfellow, ‘The day is done’, from the book The belfry of Bruges and other poems...
- in translation:
...ers in particular are so beautiful and so truly straightforward. And read Longfellow sometime, e.g.:
- in note 21:
Taken from H.W. Longfellow, ‘The light of stars’, from the book Voices of the night. See Longfell...
- 093 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Saturday, 7 and Sunday, 8 October 1876.
- in note 7:
...arkable that in the preceding quotation from Longfellow Van Gogh replaced the word ‘hate’ and in ...
- in note 4:
Based on the last two stanzas of H.W. Longfellow’s ‘Christmas bells’ from the book Flower-de-Lu...
- in note 26:
Taken from H.W. Longfellow, ‘The secret of the sea’, from the book The seaside and fireside:
- 096 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Friday, 3 November 1876.
- in note 60:
For this quotation from Longfellow, see letter 92, n. 1.
- 103 To Theo van Gogh. Dordrecht, Monday, 26 February 1877.
- in note 4:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ‘The light of stars’, see ll. 53-89.
- in note 10:
Regarding Longfellow’s ‘The light of stars’, see letter 92, n. 21.
- in translation:
...’t know if I already sent you that poem by Longfellow which I herewith copy out, it has often held ...
- 120 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 12 June 1877.
- in note 33:
Taken from Longfellow’s poem ‘Maidenhood’ from the volume Ballads and other poems. See Longfell...
- 126 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 5 August 1877.
- in note 19:
Taken from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem ‘My lost youth’ (verse 8) as it appears in the vol...
- in translation:
...s the time of The landlady’s daughter, and Longfellow says ‘there are thoughts that make the stro...
- 128 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 27 August 1877.
- in note 38:
..., some of them in Latin, and quotations from Longfellow (cf. RM3, n.1) in the margins. Ill. 1912 (Ams...
- 129 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 4 September 1877.
- in note 44:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christ: a mystery (1872). The book consists of The divine tragedy (1871),...
- in translation:
Longfellow wrote a book about life in Jesus, in which there is this and other things.
- 211 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 11 March 1882.
- in note 15:
Taken from Longfellow’s poem ‘My lost youth’, in which the line quoted recurs at the end of eve...
- in translation:
... something that recalls that famous verse by Longfellow that always ends, But the thoughts of youth a...
- 219 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 21 April 1882.
- in note 2:
...from the poem ‘My lost youth’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (‘There are thoughts that make the ...
- 273 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 22 October 1882.
- in note 8:
...is an illustration to ‘Evangeline’ by H.W. Longfellow, with below it the text: ‘Father of twen...
- 310 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 8 February 1883.
- in note 12:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ‘The courtship of Miles Standish’, part 2: ‘Love and friendship’:...
- 322 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 2 March 1883.
- in note 1:
For this quotation from Longfellow’s ‘The saga of king Olaf’, see letter 92, n. 1.
- 338 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 30 April 1883.
- in translation:
...ds with their ‘Cairene armourers’ and so on, which I find so tedious in the long run. Longfellow
- 390 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, on or about Wednesday, 26 September 1883.
- in note 4:
...g lines of the poem ‘The rainy day’ from Longfellow’s collection Ballads and other poems: ‘In...
2 essay items found
- Van Gogh as a letter-writer / The letters: from conventional to personal
- in letter_writer_2:
... know the works of the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, passages from which he copied out in...
- Van Gogh as a letter-writer / Strategies and rhetoric
- in letter_writer_4:
...rectly in other letters to the Van Stockums: Longfellow, Michelet, Brentano. The rather lengthy passa...
1 other item found
- Chronology
- in 1873:
October
#Re-reads the poems of Longfellow (14).
Term(s):
Dated between:
29 September 1872 and 31 July 1890
Person:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American poet
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