Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea is a prose collection by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
In preparation for his employment as a professor of language at his alma mater Bowdoin College, Longfellow traveled to Europe.
[6] Longfellow traveled to Europe shortly afterward, and while in London had an English edition printed, credited only by "An American".
The indifferent reception, as well as his duties as a Harvard professor, prevented Longfellow from producing significant literary works until 1838, with his poem "A Psalm of Life" and his novel Hyperion.
[7] However, Longfellow's former Bowdoin College classmate Nathaniel Hawthorne enjoyed the work so much that it inspired him to rekindle their acquaintanceship.