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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Born: February 26 1807

Died: 2323 03 18821882

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and "Evangeline". He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy and was one of the five members of the group known as the Fireside Poets.

Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, and studied at Bowdoin College. After spending time in Europe he became a professor at Bowdoin and, later, at Harvard College. His first major poetry collections were Voices of the Night and Ballads and Other Poems . Longfellow retired from teaching in 1854 to focus on his writing, though he lived the remainder of his life in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in a former headquarters of George Washington.

Longfellow predominantly wrote lyric poetry, known for its musicality, which often presented stories of mythology and legend. He became the most popular American poet of his day and also had success overseas. He has been criticized, however, for imitating European styles and writing specifically for the masses.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Books from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Song of Hiawatha

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

One Hundred and One Famous Poems: With a Prose Supplement

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings

The Courtship of Miles Standish

The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tales of a Wayside Inn

A Psalm Of Life (1892)

The Wreck of the Hesperus

Bird Songs in Literature: Bird Songs and the Poems They Have Inspired: Bird Songs and the Poems They Have Inspired

Poetry for Young People: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Children's Hour

La Divina Commedia - The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri in two languages (italian, english), and one dual language, parallel ... (translated) Vol. 2)

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The Village Blacksmith

A Treasury of Christmas Classics

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