63. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — FactMonster.com Encyclopedia Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807 – 82, American poet, b. Portland, Maine, grad. Bowdoin College, 1825. He wrote some of the most http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0830229.html |
U.S. People Word Wise ... Homework Center Fact Monster Favorites Math Flashcards Geography Guide Seven New Wonders of the World ... The Fifty States Reference Desk Almanacs Dictionary Encyclopedia ... Encyclopedia Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, , American poet, b. Portland, Maine, grad. Bowdoin College, 1825. He wrote some of the most popular poems in American literature, in which he created a new body of romantic American legends. Descended from an established New England family, after college he spent the next three years in Europe, preparing himself for a professorship of modern languages at Bowdoin, where he taught from 1829 to 1835. After the death of his young wife in 1835, Longfellow traveled again to Europe, where he met Frances Appleton, who was to become his second wife after a long courtship. She was the model for the heroine of his prose romance, Hyperion (1839). 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. He achieved great fame with long narrative poems such as Evangeline The Song of Hiawatha The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858), and | |
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