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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Born

in Portland, Maine (then still part of Massachusetts), The United States

February 27, 1807

Died

March 24, 1882

Genre

Poetry

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An extremely popular American poet in his own lifetime, Longfellow's best-known works include The Song of Hiawatha (1855), a translation of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, done in 1864-67, Paul Revere's Ride and Evangeline. He's one of the New England poets now typically referred to as the Fireside Poets.

Longfellow graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825, and after studying in Europe for several years subsequently became Bowdoin's professor of modern languages and librarian. After further study in Europe, he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to become professor of modern languages at Harvard in 1836. Meanwhile, Mary Potter Longfellow, his first wife, had died in 1835, following a miscarriage.

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	The Song of Hiawatha 3.90 avg rating — 3,484 ratings — published 1855 — 932 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie 3.93 avg rating — 2,876 ratings — published 1847 — 1070 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Favorite Poems 3.96 avg rating — 750 ratings — published 1871 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J.D. McClatchy (Editor) 4.12 avg rating — 625 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Courtship Of Miles Standish 3.66 avg rating — 511 ratings — published 1858 — 283 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 4.23 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 1859 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of a Wayside Inn 4.04 avg rating — 349 ratings — published 1863 — 325 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lawrence Buell (Introduction) 3.89 avg rating — 350 ratings — published 1879 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 4.21 avg rating — 278 ratings — published 1848 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wreck of the Hesperus 4.14 avg rating — 256 ratings — 65 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow

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“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books”
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tags: books, learning, love, serenity

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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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tags: acceptance, contentment, raining

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January 2022 Old School Classics Group Read

The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866, 188 pages

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Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1853, 432 pages

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The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes by Anonymous, 1270, 343 pages

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The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1855, 184 pages

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Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson, 1884. 432 pages

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