IDENTITY
My Lost Youth
Literature
Work Summary
A reflective poem in which memories of the poet's childhood in Portland, Maine are repeatedly summoned through places, sounds and images associated with the sea. The refrain links personal memory with an enduring sense of sadness and longing for vanished youth.
Evidence Summary
The poem supplies remembered language in his correspondence.
No visual-art connection is inferred from this occurrence.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Work
My Lost Youth
Years / Period
Aug 1877
Van Gogh Relation
Quoted / Copied
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
Aug 1877 — Letter 126, note 19
Quoted / Copied · Quoted / alluded to
Editors identify Van Gogh's wording as verse 8 of Longfellow's My Lost Youth.
Response: The poem supplies remembered language in his correspondence.
Connection: No visual-art connection is inferred from this occurrence.
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