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	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
		Henry was the son of Stephen Longfellow and Zilpah Wadsworth Longfellow.
		Longfellow entered the beautiful old elm-encircled house as a lodger, not knowing that this was to be his home for the rest of his life.
		Longfellow's wife died of burns she received when packages of her children's curls, which she was sealing with matches and wax, burst into flame.
	www.auburn.edu /~vestmon/longfellow_bio.html (1775 words)

	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Longfellow was born in 1807, the son of Stephen and Zilpah (Wadsworth) Longfellow on the corner of Hancock and Fore Streets in Portland, Maine in a Federal Style house (demolished in 1955) and grew up in what is now known as the Wadsworth-Longfellow House.
		Longfellow was enrolled in a "dame school" at the age of only three and by the age of six, when he entered the Portland Academy, he was able to read and write quite well.
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow (954 words)

	Longfellow Biography
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine (a district of Massachusetts at that time) on February 27, 1807 with blue eyes and fair hair.
		Longfellow’s mother encouraged her children to participate in music, and Longfellow learned the piano and flute, developing a life-long love of music.
		In 1834, Longfellow was appointed a professorship at Harvard.
	dlstewart.com /longfellow/LongfellowBio.htm (1459 words)

	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Henry was born on February 27, 1807 in Portland, Maine.
		Henry's father, Stephen, was a lawyer so Henry was born to a rich family.
		Henry's father wanted him to become a lawyer but after Henry graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine at the age of 19 he wanted to become a professor.
	www.kyrene.k12.az.us /schools/brisas/sunda/poets/longfellow.htm (596 words)

	Dana Gioia Online - Longfellow
		Longfellow never did so elsewhere in his poetry.) The implicit message of the line is clear: Paul Revere's achievements were of such singular importance that we must learn the date by heart and teach it to posterity.
		Longfellow was an immensely versatile poet who excelled at virtually every form and genre from the epic to the sonnet.
		Longfellow's galloping triple meters create a thrilling sense of speed, and the rhetorical device of stating the time of night when Revere enters each village adds a cumulative feeling of the rider's urgency.
	www.danagioia.net /essays/elongfellow.htm (1549 words)

	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Books and Biography
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was born in Portland, Maine.
		His father, Stephen Longfellow, was a Portland lawyer and congressman, and mother, Zilpah, was the daughter of General Peleg Wadsworth and a descendant of John Alden of the Mayflower.
		Longfellow was married twice - after the death of his first wife he married in 1843 Frances Appleton, the daughter of a prominent Boston merchant, the Mary Ashburton of Hyperion.
	www.readprint.com /author-59/Henry-Wadsworth-Longfellow (625 words)

	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
		Henry was the son of Stephen, a lawyer, and Zilpah (Wadsworth).
		Longfellow later grew a beard to cover the facial scars and because of the difficulty in shaving due to the scars.
		Henry Longfellow was the first American poet to have his bust placed in the Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey.
	poets.jr-miller.com /longfellow-henry-wadsworth/longfellow.html (284 words)

	Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		From 1836 to 1854, Longfellow was professor of modern languages at Harvard, and during these years he became one of an intellectual triumvirate that included Oliver Wendell Holmes and James Russell Lowell.
		Although a sympathetic and ethical person, Longfellow was uninvolved in the compelling religious and social issues of his time; he did, however, display interest in the abolitionist cause.
		Longfellow made a poetic translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy (1867), for which he wrote a sequence of six outstanding sonnets.
	www.bartleby.com /65/lo/LongfellHW.html (403 words)

	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
		Stephen Longfellow, the poet's father, was a successful Portland lawyer and politician, a member of the Eighteenth Congress of the United States, and trustee of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where Henry went in 1822, at the age of fifteen, after a full and happy childhood.
		Henry's mother, Zilpah Wadsworth Longfellow, was highly intelligent, devoutly religious, a lover of books and culture, and encouraged her son to pursue his literary ambitions.
		In the middle 1850s Longfellow's productivity fell off by comparison to earlier years, a fact which he lamented from time to time ("I lead the life of any respectable gentleman," he said in 1857, "whose time is frittered away with the nothings of every-day existence"), but he nevertheless continued to write whenever he could.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA01/Lisle/dial/longfellow.html (3021 words)

	The Academy of American Poets - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine--then still part of Massachusetts--on February 27, 1807, the second son in a family of eight children.
		His father, Stephen Longfellow, was a prominent Portland lawyer and later a member of Congress.
		From 1866 to 1880 Longfellow published seven more books of poetry, and his seventy-fifth birthday in 1882 was celebrated across the country.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/143 (750 words)

	Biography of Henry Wadsworth-Longfellow - Maine Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, one of America's most beloved and influential poets, was born and raised in Portland, Maine.
		Henry's grandfather, Peleg Wadsworth (1748-1829), was a Revolutionary War general who later served seven terms in the United States Congress.
		Henry's mother and early encourager was Zilpah Wadsworth Longfellow (1778-1851), direct descendant of Plymouth's John and Priscilla Alden, and a woman of learning, wit, and liberal religious convictions.
	www.mainehistory.org /house_henry.shtml (825 words)

	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine.
		His father, Stephen Longfellow, was a Portland lawyer and congressman, and mother, Zilpah, was the daughter of General Peleg Wadsworth.
		Longfellow was married twice - after the death of his first wife he married in 1843 Frances Appleton, the daughter of a prominent Boston merchant, the Mary Ashburton of Hyperion.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /long.htm (998 words)

	Longfellow National Historic Site (National Park Service)
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime and continues to influence our cultural and historical perceptions.
		He and his immediate and extended family and friends played a central role in the intellectual and artistic life of nineteenth century America and are credited with shaping a distinctly American identity and culture.
		Longfellow House was a favorite gathering place for many prominent philosophers and artists including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Julia Ward Howe, and Charles Sumner.
	www.nps.gov /long (233 words)

	Layne Longfellow Reads Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
		Layne Longfellow's 1983 "Beyond Success" presentation was recently selected among the 12 best of the past 25 years; "The Mountain Waits," a CBC documentary of Longfellow's mountaineering seminar for executives, was awarded the Gold Medal for Outdoor Films at the New York Festival of TV and Film.
		Layne Longfellow received a B.A. Ohio University) and Ph.D. (University of Michigan) in experimental psychology, with fellowships from the National Science and Woodrow Wilson Foundations; an NIMH Post-Doctoral Fellowship supported his two years of work with Dr. Carl Rogers.
		Longfellow also graduated from Jackson High School, Ohio, in the foothills of Appalachia.
	www.laynelongfellow.com /artists_ll.html (286 words)

	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the greatest American poet
		HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, whom Griswold describes as the greatest American poet, was born at Portland, Maine, February 27, 1807, and he died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 24, 1882.
		But Longfellow was untouched by it, except as his sympathies were attracted by the vigor and purity of its influence.
		Eminently, Longfellow is the poet of the domestic affections.
	www.2020site.org /poetry/hwl.html (1826 words)

	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807, in Portland, Maine.
		His father intended that Henry should follow in his footsteps as a lawyer, but when Henry graduated from Bowdoin College at age 19, the college asked him to be the first professor in their new department of modern languages.
		In 1834, Longfellow was given an appointment to Harvard.
	www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org /brthpage/02feb/2-27longflw.html (266 words)

	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - World's Greatest Classic Books
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet who was popular and successful during his time.
		Longfellow was educated at the private schools, Portland Academy, and Bowdoin College.
		Longfellow felt that her death was his greatest sorrow.
	www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/quickstep/1103/longfellow_henry.htm (358 words)

	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow \| Doing my Homework
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a famous writer during the 1800’s, having a great impact on American culture.
		He was not one of the first Longfellow’s to be born in America because the first Longfellow’s came to America in 1676 from Yorkshire England.
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was one of the first American poets who was recognized all around the world.
	www.doingmyhomework.com /show_essay/1699.html (266 words)

	Today in History: February 27
		Henry W. Longfellow, photograph of a painting by William Edgar Marshall, circa 1900-1912.
		Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807, in Portland, Maine.
		Longfellow's tale of ill-fated Acadian lovers encouraged tourist trade in both Canada and Louisiana—the setting of the story.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/feb27.html (1607 words)

	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow By Layne Longfellow
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is one of the best loved American poets the world over.
		Although he was a serious and internationally respected scholar, Longfellow was blessed with the gift of easy rhyme.
		Ironically, Layne Longfellow adapted Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poems because he wanted them to be heard the way the poet intended them.
	www.laynelongfellow.com (386 words)

	Poetry Pages - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Recollecting Longfellow
		Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, in 1807, and educated at Bowdoin College, where one of his classmates was Nathaniel Hawthorne.
		By 1857, when The Atlantic Monthly was founded under the editorship of James Russell Lowell, Longfellow was in the prime of his writing life and incontestably the most celebrated poet in the land.
		We've also posted two appreciations of Longfellow's work that originally appeared in our pages: "Aftermath," by William Dean Howells (November 1873) and "The Centenary of Longfellow," by Bliss Perry (March 1907).
	www.theatlantic.com /unbound/poetry/longfel/hwlindex.htm (537 words)

	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: His Work
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was America's most beloved nineteenth century poet and is an integral part of our culture today.
		In his best known poems, Longfellow created myths and classic epics from American historical events and materials — Native American oral history ("The Song of Hiawatha"), the diaspora of Acadians (Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie), and the first battle of the Revolutionary War ("Paul Revere's Ride").
		The following pages examine Longfellow's impact on popular culture, and offer an in-depth examination of two of his more famous poems, Evangeline and "Paul Revere's Ride." Resources in this section are a filmography, a page dedicated to the many artists who have illustrated Longfellow's words, and a list of publications.
	www.hwlongfellow.org /works_overview.shtml (343 words)

	Poet: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - All poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
		Henry Wadsworth-Longfellow was a powerful figure in the cultural life of nineteenth century America.
		Born in 1807, he had become a national literary figure by the 1850s and a world-famous personality by the time of his death in 1882 Henry's grandfather, Peleg Wadsworth (1748-1829), was a Revolut..
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery,...
	www.poemhunter.com /henry-wadsworth-longfellow/poet-3085 (375 words)

	Wadsworth-Longfellow House Overview - Maine Historical Society
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807- 1882), grew up in the house and went on to become one of the most famous men of his time.
		General Peleg Wadsworth, built the house in 1785-1786, and the last person to live there was Anne Longfellow Pierce, Henry's younger sister.
		At that time, in accordance with a deed she executed in 1895, the house passed to the Maine Historical Society to be preserved as a memorial to her famous brother and their family.
	www.mainehistory.org /house_overview.shtml (491 words)

	'Footprints on the sands of time' \| csmonitor.com
		Students use to memorize "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" and lines from "Evangeline" and "Hiawatha." Longfellow's literary reputation once rivaled that of Tennyson and Dickens, and after his death, the American poet was singularly honored by having his bust placed in Westminster Abbey with the greatest English poets.
		But Longfellow was eager to retire from teaching to devote himself to poetry.
		Those dedicated to Dante come from his beautiful translation of "The Divine Comedy" and are tinged with the sadness Longfellow felt over the frightful death of his beloved Fanny, who burned to death in 1861.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0928/p17s02-bogn.html (479 words)

	Longfellow - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 200th Birthday
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) is one of America's most recognized and best–loved poets.
		On the 200th anniversary of Longfellow's birth, we are celebrating the life and achievements of the boy from Maine who became America's most beloved poet.
		See the responses to Longfellow that have come in from near and far.
	www.hwlongfellow.org /hwl200_overview.shtml (238 words)

	PAL: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
		Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with extracts from his journals and correspondence.
		Blue, Frederick J. "The Poet and the Reformer: Longfellow, Sumner, and the Bonds of Male Friendship, 1837-1874." Journal of the early Republic 15.2 (Sum 1995): 273-.
		Haralson, Eric L. "Mars in Petticoats: Longfellow and Sentimental Masculinity." Nineteenth-century literature 51.3 (1996): 327-.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap3/longfellow.html (188 words)

	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poetry
		The Wreck of the Hesperus a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
		The Lighthouse a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
		The Cumberland a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
	www.poetry-online.org /longfellow-henry-wadsworth-poetry.htm (156 words)

	Henry W. Longfellow at LiteratureClassics.com -- essays, resources
		Longfellow's works ranged from sentimental pieces such as 'The Village Blacksmith' to translations of Dante.
		Longfellow is considered the first professional American poet.
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	www.literatureclassics.com /authors/Longfellow (300 words)

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