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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
An 1868 portrait of Longfellow by Julia Margaret Cameron
Born
(1807-02-27)February 27, 1807 Portland, District of Maine, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died
March 24, 1882(1882-03-24) (aged 75) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation
Poet
educator
Alma mater
Bowdoin College (AB)
Spouses
Mary Storer Potter
(m. 1831; died 1835)
Frances Elizabeth Appleton
(m. 1843; died 1861)
Children
6, including Ernest and Alice
Parents
Stephen Longfellow
Zilpah Wadsworth
Relatives
Samuel Longfellow (brother)
Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr. (nephew)
Signature
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", "The Song of Hiawatha", and "Evangeline". He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England.
Longfellow was born in Portland, District of Maine, Massachusetts (now Portland, Maine). He graduated from Bowdoin College and became a professor there and, later, at Harvard College after studying in Europe. His first major poetry collections were Voices of the Night (1839) and Ballads and Other Poems (1841). He retired from teaching in 1854 to focus on his writing, and he lived the remainder of his life in the Revolutionary War headquarters of George Washington in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
His first wife, Mary Potter, died in 1835 after a miscarriage. His second wife, Frances Appleton, died in 1861 after sustaining burns when her dress caught fire. After her death, Longfellow had difficulty writing poetry for a time and focused on translating works from foreign languages. Longfellow died in 1882.
Longfellow wrote many lyric poems known for their musicality and often presenting stories of mythology and legend. He became the most popular American poet of his day and had success overseas. He has been criticized for imitating European styles and writing poetry that was too sentimental.
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