Henry Wadsworth Longfellow






Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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born
February 27, 1807

died
December 13, 1901

gender
male

place of birth
Cambridge, Massachusetts, The United States

genre
Poetry


about this author

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 Ge...more




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Evangeline Evangeline
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
avg rating 3.73 — 161 ratings — published 1847
24 editions
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The Song of Hiawatha The Song of Hiawatha
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
avg rating 3.83 — 135 ratings — published 1855
44 editions
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The Midnight Ride of Paul Reve... The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
avg rating 3.98 — 103 ratings — published 1973
15 editions
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Po... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
avg rating 4.14 — 66 ratings — published 2000
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Favorite Poems Favorite Poems
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
avg rating 4.20 — 55 ratings — published 1871
20 editions
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The Courtship of Miles Standis... The Courtship of Miles Standish
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
avg rating 3.36 — 33 ratings — published 1899
3 editions
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The Complete Works of Henry Wa... The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
avg rating 3.83 — 29 ratings — published 1904
10 editions
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Evangeline and Other Poems Evangeline and Other Poems
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
avg rating 3.92 — 25 ratings — published 1964
6 editions
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Tales of a Wayside Inn Tales of a Wayside Inn
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
avg rating 4.22 — 18 ratings — published 1863
6 editions
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The Children's Hour The Children's Hour
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
avg rating 4.31 — 13 ratings — published 1993
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"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
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"Music is the universal language of mankind."
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"For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain."
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