Who wrote the poem 'The Village Blacksmith'?
"on airs. Accordingly ""The Village Blacksmith"" became the RAOC Regimental March. The Royal New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps adopted the same march. The Village Blacksmith ""The Village Blacksmith"" is a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in 1840. The poem describes a local blacksmith and his daily life. The blacksmith serves as a role model who balances his job with the role he plays with his family and community. Years after its publication, a tree mentioned in the poem was cut down and part of it was made into an armchair which was then presented to Longfellow by local"
"schoolmaster, then a town clerk. In 1745, this ancestor was the first Longfellow to make his way to Portland, Maine, the town where the poet would be born. The poem was written early in Longfellow's poetic career, around the same time he published his first collection, ""Voices of the Night"", in 1839. The book included his poem ""A Psalm of Life"". On October 5, 1839, he recorded in his journal: ""Wrote a new Psalm of Life. It is 'The Village Blacksmith.'"" It would be another year before the poem was published, however. Longfellow wrote to his father on October 25,"
"and in England, took credit for inspiring the poem with varying amounts of evidence. The Longfellow family became annoyed with the preponderance of claims. In 1922, the poet's son Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow responded to these people in his book ""Random Memories"". In a section called ""Quips and Cranks"", he wrote: ""The Village Blacksmith"" was first published in the November 1840 issue of ""The Knickerbocker"". It was soon after printed as part of Longfellow's poetry collection ""Ballads and Other Poems"" in 1841. The collection, which also included ""The Wreck of the Hesperus"", was instantly popular. In 1879, years after the publication"
"Oliver Goldsmith (Canadian poet) Oliver Goldsmith (1794–1861) was a Canadian poet born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. He is best known for ""The Rising Village"", which appeared in 1825. It was at once the first book-length poem published by a native English-Canadian and the first book-length publication in England by a Canadian poet. Furthermore, his ""Autobiography"" is the first autobiography of a native Canadian writer. He is not to be confused with his great-uncle Oliver Goldsmith, to whose celebrated poem ""The Deserted Village"" ""The Rising Village"" is a response. In 1944 his name was added by the Canadian Government to"
"its list of Persons of National Historic Significance. Oliver Goldsmith (Canadian poet) Oliver Goldsmith (1794–1861) was a Canadian poet born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. He is best known for ""The Rising Village"", which appeared in 1825. It was at once the first book-length poem published by a native English-Canadian and the first book-length publication in England by a Canadian poet. Furthermore, his ""Autobiography"" is the first autobiography of a native Canadian writer. He is not to be confused with his great-uncle Oliver Goldsmith, to whose celebrated poem ""The Deserted Village"" ""The Rising Village"" is a response. In 1944 his"
"1840: ""There will be a kind of Ballad on a Blacksmith in the next Knickerbocker, which you may consider, if you please, as a song in praise of your ancestors at Newbury."" The actual village blacksmith in the poem, however, was a Cambridge resident named Dexter Pratt, a neighbor of Longfellow's. Pratt's house is still standing at 54 Brattle Street in Cambridge. Several other blacksmiths have been posited as inspirations for the character in the poem, including ""The Learned Blacksmith"" Elihu Burritt, to whom Longfellow once offered a scholarship to attend Harvard College. Several people, both in the United States"
"The Deserted Village The Deserted Village is a poem by Oliver Goldsmith published in 1770. It is a work of social commentary, and condemns rural depopulation and the pursuit of excessive wealth. The location of the poem's deserted village is unknown, but the description may have been influenced by Goldsmith's memory of his childhood in rural Ireland, and his travels around England. The poem is written in heroic couplets, and describes the decline of a village and the emigration of many of its residents to America. In the poem, Goldsmith criticises rural depopulation, the moral corruption found in towns, consumerism,"
"Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel ""The Vicar of Wakefield"" (1766), his pastoral poem ""The Deserted Village"" (1770), and his plays ""The Good-Natur'd Man"" (1768) and ""She Stoops to Conquer"" (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought to have written the classic children's tale ""The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes"" (1765). Goldsmith's birth date and year are not known with certainty. According to the Library of Congress authority file, he told a biographer that he was born on 10 November"
"13th century. The current parish church, also St Peter's, was built in 1874. It was earlier in that century that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his poem """"The Village Blacksmith"""". Church Lawford along with Cambridge, Massachusetts is said to be the inspiration for the poem as the poet visited England for a three-year trip. There were primary schools in the village between the early 1900s and 1996. The first closed in 1964 and was replaced by a second school which itself shut just over thirty years later. The village is often mentioned along with the neighbouring village of Long Lawford to"
"Blacksmith (song) ""Blacksmith"" (Roud 816) is a traditional English folk song, also known as ""A Blacksmith Courted Me"". The song was noted down by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1909 from a Mrs Ellen Powell of Westhope near Weobley, Herefordshire. On that occasion it was sung to the tune ""Monk's Gate"", better known as the tune of ""To be a pilgrim"", the hymn by John Bunyan. The same tune is sometimes used for the song ""Our Captain Cried"". There is a setting by George Butterworth (a friend of Vaughan Williams and Cecil Sharp) in his 1912 collection ""Folk Songs from Sussex"""
"novel ""The Painted Veil"" by W. Somerset Maugham, the last words of the poem ""An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog"", ""The dog it was that died"", are the dying words of bacteriologist Walter Fane, one of the primary characters in the novel. Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel ""The Vicar of Wakefield"" (1766), his pastoral poem ""The Deserted Village"" (1770), and his plays ""The Good-Natur'd Man"" (1768) and ""She Stoops to Conquer"" (1771, first performed in 1773). He"
"Dexter Pratt House The Dexter Pratt House is an historic house at 54 Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is remembered as the home of Dexter Pratt, the blacksmith who inspired the poem ""The Village Blacksmith"" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The house was built in 1808 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It was built for blacksmith Torrey Hancock, who sold the home in 1827 to fellow blacksmith Dexter Pratt. Pratt worked there until his death in 1847; his widow lived there until her death in 1858. It was then passed on to the couple's"
"married daughter Annie Louise Pratt Smith. Dexter Pratt was the village blacksmith that inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem ""The Village Blacksmith"". Longfellow published the poem in 1841 as part of ""Ballads and Other Poems"", which also collected ""The Wreck of the Hesperus"". The poem proved to be popular. It mentioned a ""spreading chestnut tree"" where Dexter Pratt worked and, when a plan for Brattle Street to be widened was enacted in 1870, the tree was threatened. Initially, the road was built such that the tree was standing in the middle of the street. This set-up did not last long and"
"of ""The Village Blacksmith"", the local schoolchildren in Cambridge, Massachusetts presented Longfellow with an armchair made from ""the spreading chestnut tree"" in the poem which was recently cut down. Under the cushion of the chair is a brass plate on which is inscribed, in part: ""This chair made from the wood of the spreading chestnut-tree is presented as an expression of his grateful regard and veneration by the children of Cambridge"". From then on, Longfellow made it a rule to allow schoolchildren to be admitted into his study to see the chair. He also composed a poem to commemorate his"
"additional cottages have been added in similar styles early in the 19th century and again early in the 20th century. The old village had a village green. The new village has none, but was built to a spacious plan with gardens for every cottage and verges between them and the main road. In the 1760s the Irish writer, poet and playwright Oliver Goldsmith witnessed the demolition of a medieval village and destruction of its farms to clear land to become a wealthy man's garden. His poem ""The Deserted Village"", published in 1770, expresses a fear that the destruction of villages"
"Wadsworth Longfellow in his famous poem, ""The Village Blacksmith"" praises the blacksmith, “His brow is wet with honest sweat. He earn whatever he can, and looks the whole world in the face, for he owes not any man. Makera Assada Makera Assada is among the areas that form the town of Sokoto state of Nigeria. The area is part of Magajin Gari Ward in the southern part of Sokoto North local government area of Sokoto state, bordered Gidan Haki in the east, Digyar Agyare in the west, Mafara in the north and Helele in the south. According to oral sources"
"think she loved a one And he proved deceitful. A blacksmith courted me Nine months and better He fairly won my heart Wrote me a letter. With his hammer in his hand He looked so clever And if I was with my love I would live forever. </poem> Blacksmith (song) ""Blacksmith"" (Roud 816) is a traditional English folk song, also known as ""A Blacksmith Courted Me"". The song was noted down by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1909 from a Mrs Ellen Powell of Westhope near Weobley, Herefordshire. On that occasion it was sung to the tune ""Monk's Gate"", better known"
"tools were incorporated into the metalwork. An engraved stone marks the spot where the tree once stood. In 2014, the CCAE received a Preservation Award from the Massachusetts Historical Commission for its restoration efforts of the house. Dexter Pratt House The Dexter Pratt House is an historic house at 54 Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is remembered as the home of Dexter Pratt, the blacksmith who inspired the poem ""The Village Blacksmith"" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The house was built in 1808 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It was built for blacksmith Torrey"
"Goldsmith witnessed the demolition of an ancient village and destruction of its farms to clear land to become a wealthy man's garden. His poem ""The Deserted Village"", published in 1770, expresses a fear that the destruction of villages and the conversion of land from productive agriculture to ornamental landscape gardens would ruin the peasantry. Goldsmith was an Anglican, and famously said ""as I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the taylor, so I take my religion from the priest."" Thomas Hurst wrote that Goldsmith ""recognised with joy the existence and perfections of a Deity. For the"
"most famous poems including ""Paul Revere's Ride"" and ""The Village Blacksmith"", as well as longer works such as ""Evangeline"", ""The Song of Hiawatha"", and ""The Courtship of Miles Standish"". He published 11 poetry collections, two novels, three epic poems, and several plays while living in this house, as well as a translation of Dante Alighieri's ""Divine Comedy"". He and his wife most often referred to it as ""Craigie House"" or ""Craigie Castle"". Longfellow oversaw the creation of a formal garden, and his wife oversaw decorating the interior. She purchased several items from Tiffany & Co. in New York, as well"
"defended the value of England's increase in wealth, and questioned whether rural depopulation had become an important problem. Modern economic historians have supported Comber's comments about depopulation. George Crabbe's poem ""The Village"" (1783) was written as a riposte to what its author saw as the excessive sentimentality of Goldsmith's verse. In his poem, Crabbe describes the hardships of the rural poor, in a way that Goldsmith did not. Furthermore, Crabbe's poem encourages the interpretation of Goldsmith's bucolic depiction of old ""sweet Auburn"" in ""The Deserted Village"" as being a representation of the ""status quo"" in 1770, rather than a depiction"
"The Blacksmith's Shop The Blacksmith's Shop is a recurring theme of five paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby. The version in his home town was originally completed in 1771. Joseph Wright of Derby painted five paintings on the theme of a blacksmith's shop or a forge between the years 1771 and 1773. The Derby Museum version is of a blacksmith's shop where three men work to manufacture an iron or steel component. The presence of visitors and the nocturnal work is explained by the farrier working outside. Wright has imagined that a traveller has broken down on a journey and"
"work as well. At that period an anonymous review in ""The Academy"" (12 December 1896) claimed that ""Gray's 'Elegy' and Goldsmith's 'The Deserted Village' shine forth as the two human poems in a century of artifice."" The Elegy's continued influence in the 19th century provoked a response from the Romantic poets, who often attempted to define their own beliefs in reaction to Gray's. Percy Bysshe Shelley, for example, who as a schoolboy was given the exercise of translating part of the Elegy into Latin, eventually wrote his own meditation among the graves in 1815. His ""A Summer Evening Churchyard, Lechlade,"
"Alfred Williams (poet) Alfred Owen Williams (February 7, 1877 – April 10, 1930) was a poet, author and a collector of folk song lyrics who was born and lived most of his life at South Marston, near Swindon, UK. He was almost entirely self-taught, producing his most famous work, ""Life in a Railway Factory"" (1915), in his spare time after completing a gruelling day's work in the Great Western Railway works in Swindon. He was nicknamed “The Hammerman Poet”. Williams was born in Cambria Cottage in the village of South Marston, the son of a carpenter, and grew up in"
"The Twa Magicians ""The Twa Magicians"", ""The Two Magicians"", ""The Lady and the Blacksmith"", or ""The Coal Black Smith"" (Roud 1350, Child 44) is a British folk song. It first appears in print in 1828 in two sources, Peter Buchan's ""Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland"" and John Wilson's ""Noctes Ambrosianae"" #40. It was later published as number 44 of Francis James Child's ""English and Scottish Popular Ballads"". During the 20th century, versions of it have been recorded by a number of folk and popular musicians. A blacksmith threatens to deflower (take the virginity of) a lady,"
"enclosure, landscape gardening, avarice, and the pursuit of wealth from international trade. The poem employs, in the words of one critic, ""deliberately precise obscurity"", and does not reveal the reason why the village has been deserted. The poem was very popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but also provoked critical responses, including from other poets such as George Crabbe. References to the poem, and particularly its ominous ""Ill fares the land"" warning, have appeared in a number of other contexts. Goldsmith grew up in the hamlet of Lissoy in Ireland. In the 1760s, Goldsmith travelled extensively around England, visiting"
"of authority in both England and Ireland at different times. Many of Swift's works reflected support for Ireland during times of political turmoil with England, including ""Proposal for Universal Use of Irish Manufacture"" (1720), ""Drapier's Letters"" (1724), and ""A Modest Proposal"" (1729), and earned him the status of an Irish patriot. Oliver Goldsmith (1730–1774), born in County Longford, moved to London, where he became part of the literary establishment, though his poetry reflects his youth in Ireland. He is best known for his novel ""The Vicar of Wakefield"" (1766), his pastoral poem ""The Deserted Village"" (1770), and his plays ""The"
"Thomas Blackburn (poet) Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn (10 February 1916 – 13 August 1977) was a British poet. His work is noted for its self-examination and spiritual imagery. His autobiographical novel, ""A Clip of Steel"" (1969), portrays a childhood under a repressive clergyman father. Blackburn was born in Hensingham, Cumberland, England. He was the product of an affair his father had with a Mauritian woman in the West Indies. As a child his father repeatedly washed his face with a mixture of bleach and lemon because he believed it would avoid the appearance of mixed ancestry. After briefly studying law"
"The Village (poem) The Village is a narrative poem by George Crabbe, published in 1783. The poem contrasts the traditional representation of the rural idyll in Augustan poetry with the realities of village life. In early 1781 Crabbe wrote a letter to statesman and author Edmund Burke asking for help, in which he included samples of his poetry. Among the samples that Crabbe sent to Burke were pieces of his poems ""The Library"" and ""The Village"" which Burke viewed favourably, giving Crabbe a gift of money to relieve his immediate wants, and assuring him that he would do all in"
"site. <poem> A blacksmith courted me Nine months and better He fairly won my heart Wrote me a letter. With his hammer in his hand He looked so clever And if I was with my love I would live forever. But where is my love gone With his cheeks like roses And his good black Billycock on Decked around with primroses. I fear the shining sun May burn and scorch his beauty And if I was with my love I would do my duty. Strange news is come to town Strange news is carried Strange news flies up and down"
"popular culture, and specifically that of Alabama, the poem's first line ""Sweet Auburn, Loveliest village of the plain"" is the basis for the term ""Auburn Plainsman/Plainsmen"" which is used to refer to an Auburn University student and is also the source for the name of the University student Newspaper, The Auburn Plainsman. Mount Auburn Cemetery in Watertown and Cambridge, Massachusetts, is also named after the village in the poem. The Deserted Village The Deserted Village is a poem by Oliver Goldsmith published in 1770. It is a work of social commentary, and condemns rural depopulation and the pursuit of excessive"
"many small settlements. In this period, the enclosure movement was at its height. The poem is dedicated to the artist Sir Joshua Reynolds. Reynolds and Goldsmith were close friends, and were both founding members, along with Samuel Johnson, of a dining society called The Club. Reynolds had helped to promote Goldsmith's play ""The Good-Natur'd Man"" to the actor and theatre manager David Garrick, and had facilitated Goldsmith's appointment as the historian of the Royal Academy. ""The Deserted Village"" condemns rural depopulation and the indulgence of the rich. This was a subject that Goldsmith had tackled in his earlier poem ""The"
"on 3 January 1884 at Bradshaw Street, Blackburn. Attribution William Billington (poet) William Billington (3 April 1825 – 3 January 1884) was an English poet, living in Blackburn, Lancashire and sometimes writing in dialect. He became known as ""The Blackburn Poet"". Billington was born in Samlesbury, Lancashire in 1825. His parents Benedict and Ann Billington were at the time unemployed hand-loom weavers, working for a contractor for roadmaking. His father died in 1832; three of his children died from tuberculosis before 1837. The surviving children were supported by Ann's hand-loom weaving. He learned to read and write at Catholic Sunday"