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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.
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	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.
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	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Biography and Works
		Longfellow's Hiawatha shares the name of the real Mohawk Indian Chief Hiawatha (born c.1400's) who followed De-Ka-Nah-Wi-Da's teachings of peace and was instrumental in the formation of the Iroquois League of Five Nations.
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on 27 February 1807, the second child of eight born to Zilpah née Wadsworth (1778-1851) and lawyer Stephen Longfellow (1775-1849) in the city of Portland, Maine.
		Henry tried desperately to smother the flames, suffering burns to his hands and face, to no avail; Fanny soon succumbed to her wounds.
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	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Biography and List of Works - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Books
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807- March 24, 1882) was an American poet who wrote many works that are still famous today, including The Song of Hiawatha, Paul Revere's Ride and Evangeline.
		Longfellow was born 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.
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	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Biography - Poems
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet who was born on February 27, 1807 in Portland, Maine.
		As the son of Stephen Longfellow and Zilpah Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry was sent to school at the early age of three.
		While courting Appleton, Longfellow would walk from Harvard to Boston crossing the river via the West Boston Bridge, which was later demolished and replaced in 1906 to be named the Longfellow Bridge, to visit her home.
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	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poetry on CD (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, in 1807.
		Longfellow was appointed Professor of Modern Languages at Bowdoin College at age 18, immediately upon graduation from that institution.
		Longfellow was unable to attend her burial due to the severity of his own burns.
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	[minstrels] Hiawatha's Departure -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
		Henry was a historian, explorer, and geologist who was superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 to 1841.
		In 1836 Longfellow returned to Harvard and settled in the famous Craigie House, which was later given to him as a wedding present when he remarried in 1843.
		Longfellow was more at home in Evangeline (1847), a narrative poem that reached almost every literate home in the United States.
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	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.
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		Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, and educated at Bowdoin College.
		Longfellow's second wife, Fanny Appleton, was a Boston heiress whose money allowed the couple to live in relative sumptuousness.
		By the middle of the nineteenth century, Longfellow was one of the most popular poets writing in English; but as a professor, a scholar, and an American "bard" in an Emersonian sense, he aspired to provide intellectual and cultural leadership, not pander to the public.
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		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet among whose works were Paul Revere's Ride, A Psalm of Life, The Song of Hiawatha and Evangeline.
		Longfellow was born in 1807 to Stephen and Zilpah (Wadsworth) Longfellow in Portland, Maine, and grew up in what is now known as the Wadsworth-Longfellow House.
		Longfellow was such an admired figure in the United States during his life, that his 70th birthday in 1877 took on the air of a national holiday, with parades, speeches, and the reading of his poetry.
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	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
		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.
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	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
		Henry was named after his mother Zilpah's brother who died in Tripoli in the first decade of the 19th century.
		Henry, Nathaniel, and a third individual were sitting around a table in a pub, and this third man mentioned a story he had heard and suggested that Nathaniel should write a book about it.
		Henry's sister, Anne, wanted to leave the Wadsworth-Longfellow house to Maine historical Society, and for quite some time they refused to take it, not wishing to get into property (Till that time they were a gentleman's club with offices in Bowdoin College).
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	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.
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	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine (then a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts).
		Fanny Longfellow, his wife, was also from a Unitarian family, and in later years of Henry's life, his daughter, Alice, was happy to tell her father's admirers that her father "was born a Unitarian and remained one all of his life.
		After Henry's death and funeral, his brother, Samuel, wrote to a friend: "The daughters are brave and cheerful, and go on with all their accustomed life in the house, which seems so full of his bright and kindly presence that I cannot think of him as gone from it.
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	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Bio (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Longfellow (1807-1882), American poet, one of the most popular and celebrated poets of his time.
		Most modern critics, however, are not in accord with the high opinion that was generally held of the author by his contemporaries, and his works are often criticized as sentimental.
		Nevertheless, Longfellow remains one of the most popular of American poets, primarily for his simplicity of style and theme and for his technical expertise, but also for his role in the creation of an American mythology.
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	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - MSN Encarta
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), American poet, one of the most popular and celebrated poets of his time.
		In 1884 a bust of Longfellow was placed in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey in London; he was the first American to be thus honored.
		Nevertheless, Longfellow remains one of the most popular of American poets, primarily for his simplicity of style and theme and for his technical expertise, but also for his role in the creation of an American mythology.
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	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.
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	Cordula's Web. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 - March 24, 1882) was an American poet who wrote many poems that are still famous today, including The Song of Hiawatha and Evangeline.
		He was descended from the Longfellow family who came to America in 1676 from Yorkshire, England and from Priscilla and John Alden on his father's side.
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), the most popular American poet of the 19th century, whose works are still cited - or parodied.
		His father, Stephen Longfellow, was a Portland lawyer and congressman, and mother Zilpah, was a descendant of John Alden of the Mayflower.
		Longfellow was fond of reading and at thirteen he wrote his first poem, "The Battle of Lovell's Pond," which appeared in the Portland Gazette.
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	Chapter Chapter 5 of Index by Simonds History of American Literature
		It was from his mother, a lover of nature and of poetry, that Longfellow inherited his romantic taste and his literary ambition.
		In 1822, Longfellow became a student at Bowdoin College, and was admitted to the Sophomore Class.
		Before the end of his college course, Longfellow had recognized his true vocation, and had formulated his desires in a letter to his father, written in his senior year.
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	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
		Longfellow was resting in a room next to where she was and awoke terrified.
		Longfellow loved Portland and absorbed all that he could; he took nothing for granted and, from the images he gathered and lessons he learned, he published beautiful poems enabling the rest of the world to share in these indescribable visions.
		Longfellow was awoken as Fanny ran to him, and he frantically attempted to smother the flames.
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	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
		The Longfellow of this anthology is our late twentieth-century "revisionist" Longfellow, and except in poems such as "A Psalm of Life," he is almost unrecognizable as a writer who might have written those famous poems.
		Longfellow's poems are not only accessible in their meaning, but they are also highly regular in their form.
		There are many directions to travel here: First, locate Longfellow in New England with Emerson and the Transcendentalists; second, locate him as a (necessary?) predecessor to Whitman, and then compare their views of America; third, set his view of life and nature against that of native poets.
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	The homes of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow lived in one of two houses for most of his life: the Wadsworth-Longfellow House on Congress Street in Portland, Maine, where he grew up; and Craigie House, the 1759 colonial mansion in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he lived from 1837 until his death in 1882.
		The house in Portland was built by the poet's grandfather, General Peleg Wadsworth, in 1785-1786.
		Anne Longfellow Pierce, the poet's sister, bequeathed the Wadsworth-Longfellow House to the Maine Historical Society upon her death in 1901; it opened as a museum later that year.
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	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow .....................
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was an American poet, one of the most popular and celebrated of his time.
		Born in Portland, Maine, Longfellow received his education at Bowdoin College, where he was a classmate of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
		Longfellow's work began to gain fame with his first volume of verse, "Voices of the Night", published in 1839.
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	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.
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	DNK Amazon Store :: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings (Library of America)
		Longfellow's book Tales of a Wayside Inn is given a dramatic reading here, for McClatchy selects not only the best of the Tales but also tries to find room for the body and the heart in all its different avatars.
		All in all, Longfellow may be the most forwardlooking of all the poets of 19th century USA, and that's a strong statement considering we are putting him ahead of (among others) Emerson, Poe, Dickinson, Whitman, Very, and Melville.
		Longfellow's conventional morality and straightforward manner of expression have long caused his work to be unfairly ignored by serious readers.
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