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Outre-Mer
''Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea'' is a prose collection which was the first major work by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The term "outre-mer" is French for "overseas".
==Overview==
In preparation for his employment as a professor of language at his alma mater Bowdoin College, Longfellow traveled to Europe.〔Arvin, Newton. ''Longfellow: His Life and Work''. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963: 26.〕 His stay there may have inspired ''Outre-Mer''. It is his first published literary work.〔Williams, Cecil B. ''Henry Wadsworth Longfellow''. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1964: 66.〕
''Outre-Mer'' is a collection of prose sketches styled on ''The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.'' by Washington Irving.〔Wagenknecht, Edward. ''Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Portrait of an American Humanist''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966: 81–82.〕 Longfellow had met Irving while in Madrid in 1829, and Irving encouraged him to write.〔Burstein, Andrew. ''The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving''. New York: Basic Books, 2007: 195. ISBN 978-0-465-00853-7.〕
After Longfellow received a professorship at Harvard College, he rented a room in Cambridge, Massachusetts from the widow of Andrew Craigie, the first Apothecary General of the United States, in the summer of 1837.〔Wagenknecht, Edward. ''Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Portrait of an American Humanist''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966: 6.〕 Assuming the young-looking Longfellow was a student at neighboring Harvard, Mrs. Craigie refused to board him. Longfellow convinced her that he was a faculty member, and pointed out that he was the author of ''Outre-Mer'', which she had a copy of.〔Wagenknecht, Edward. ''Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Portrait of an American Humanist''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966: 7.〕 The Craigie House is now the Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site. When Longfellow first met his wife-to-be Fanny Appleton, she was traveling in Switzerland in 1836 with her family, including her father the industrialist Nathan Appleton. After meeting Longfellow, she wrote in her journal that she hoped he would not "pop in on us" though, she admitted "I did like his Outre-Mer".〔Wagenknecht, Edward. ''Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Portrait of an American Humanist''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966: 162.〕
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