他是一个木匠的儿子,但他狂热地喜爱诗歌。他的第一本诗集印了1000册,但很可惜,一本部没卖掉他只好把这些诗集全都送了人。当时已功成名就的美国著名诗人郎费罗、洛威尔和霍姆斯等人,对这本小册子根本不屑一顾,而大诗人惠蒂埃甚至把它丢进了火炉里。因为在他们眼中,一个木匠的儿子,根本就不配写诗。方方面面的冷落和骂声,像寒冬的北风一样袭来,他的心顿时冻成了冰块。就在他几近绝望时,意外地收到了一位 He is the son of a carpenter, but he is passionate about poetry. His first book of poems printed 1,000 copies, but a pity that a book did not sell him had to send all of these poems to people. The well-known American poets Lang Feiro, Lowell and Holmes, who at that time did not pay any attention to this pamphlet, and the great poet Whittier even threw it into the fire. Because in their eyes, a carpenter’s son, simply do not write poetry. All aspects of neglect and condemning, like a wintry winter wind hit, his heart suddenly frozen into ice. When he was almost desperate, unexpectedly received one