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Excelsior, a Latin comparative word often translated as "ever upward" or "even higher", may refer to: Arts and entertainment Literature and poetry * Excelsior (Longfellow), "Excelsior" (Longfellow), an 1841 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow * Excelsior (Macedonski), ''Excelsior'' (Macedonski), a book of poems by Alexandru Macedonski * Excelsior (short story), "Excelsior" (short story), a 1948 short story by P. G. Wodehouse * Excelsior (Whitman), "Excelsior" (Whitman), a poem by Walt Whitman Music * Excelsior Recordings, a record label from the Netherlands * Excelsior Brass Band, an 1879-1931 brass band from New Orleans * "Excelsior", a setting of Longfellow's poem to music by Michael William Balfe * "Excelsior!", a concert overture by Wilhelm Stenhammar * "Excelsior", an album by Steven Page Science fiction * Excelsior (comics), in ''Runaways'', a support group for former teenage superheroes * USS ''Excelsior'', a Federation starship first seen in the movie ''Star Trek II ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Excelsior (Longfellow)
"Excelsior" is a short poem written in 1841 by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Overview The poem describes a young man passing through a mountain village at dusk. He bears the banner "Excelsior" (translated from Latin as "higher", also loosely but more widely as "onward and upward"). The traveller disregards warnings from villagers of fearful dangers above, and an offer of rest from a local maiden. The youth climbs higher until a last distant cry interrupts the prayers of the monks of Hospice of the Great St. Bernard, Saint Bernard. "Lifeless, but beautiful" he is found by the "faithful hound" half-buried in the snow, "still clasping in his hands of ice that banner with the strange device, ''Excelsior!''" Longfellow's first draft of "Excelsior", now in the archives at Harvard University, notes that he finished the poem at three o'clock in the morning on September 28, 1841. The poem came to him as he was trying to sleep. "That ''voice'' kept ringing in my ears", as he wro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |