A+E Networks. In early April 1968, shock waves reverberated around the world with the news that U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
Although One Hundred Years of Solitude has come to be considered one of, if not the, most influential Latin American texts of all time, the novel and Gabriel GarcÃ­a MÃ¡rquez have both received occasional criticisms.
Longfellow's poem was originally printed in the 1841 edition of Ballads and Other Poems, which also included other well-known poems such as The Wreck of the Hesperus. Excelsior is a brief poem written and published in 1841 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.The famous Sam Loyd chess problem, Excelsior, was named after this poem.xcelsior is a brief poem written and published in 1841 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.