Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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February 27, 1807 in Portland, Maine, The United States

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December 13, 1901

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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 (1839) and Ballads and Other Poems (1842). 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.

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Average rating: 3.97 · 4,411 ratings · 470 reviews · 275 distinct works

	The Song of Hiawatha 3.89 avg rating — 592 ratings — published 1855 — 88 editions	My rating:
	Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie 3.80 avg rating — 532 ratings — published 1847 — 152 editions	My rating:
	The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christopher Bing (Illustrator) 4.06 avg rating — 511 ratings — published 1973 — 25 editions	My rating:
	Favorite Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dover Thrift Editions 3.97 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 1871 — 35 editions	My rating:
	The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 4.12 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1848 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Courtship of Miles Standish 3.26 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1899 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Evangeline and Other Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dover Thrift Editions 3.72 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1912 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Tales of a Wayside Inn 4.11 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1863 — 29 editions	My rating:
	The Wreck of the Hesperus (Phoenix 60p Paperbacks) 4.26 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Childrens Hour 4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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