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A Short Biography of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Author Name:

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Born As:

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Other Names:

Born:

27 Feb 1807

Died:

24 Mar 1882




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Selected Works:

The Village Blacksmith
Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea - Travelogue - 1835
Hyperion, a Romance - 1839
The Spanish Student. A Play in Three Acts - 1843
The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems - 1845
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie - epic poem - 1847
"Kavanagh: A Tale" - 1849
"The Golden Legend" - poem- 1851
The Song of Hiawatha - epic poem - 1855
The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems - 1858
Household Poems - 1865
Dante's Divine Comedy - translation- 1867
The New England Tragedies - 1868
The Divine Tragedy - 1871
Christus: A Mystery - 1872
Three Books of Song - 1872
"Aftermath" - poem- 1873
The Masque of Pandora and Other Poems - 1875
Kéramos and Other Poems - 1878

Poetry collections

Birds of Passage
Voices of the Night - 1839
Ballads and Other Poems - 1842
Poems on Slavery - 1842
The Seaside and the Fireside - 1850
Tales of a Wayside Inn - 1863
Flower-de-Luce - 1867
Ultima Thule - 1880
In the Harbor - 1882

Anthologies and translations

Coplas de Don Jorge Manrique - Translation from Spanish - 1833
The Waif - Anthology of other writers - 1845
Poets and Poetry of Europe - Translations - 1844.                          
Mother Zilpah Wadsworth
Father Stephen Longfellow, eight children,  Stephen - 1805, Henry - 1807,  Elizabeth - 1808, Anne - 1810, Alexander - 1814, Mary - 1816, Ellen - 1818, and Samuel - 1819.

Wife Fanny Appleton, six children, 
Charles Appleton  - 1844
Ernest Wadsworth - 1845
Fanny - 1847
Alice Mary - 1850
Edith - 1853
Anne Allegra - 1855                          
In 1884 he was the first and only American poet for whom a commemorative sculpted bust was placed in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey in London.

Longfellow's home in Cambridge, the Longfellow National Historic Site, is a U.S. National Historic Site, National Historic Landmark, and on the National Register of Historic Places. A two-thirds scale replica was built in Minneapolis,
 
Minnesota, at Minnehaha Park in 1906 and once served as a centerpiece for a local zoo.

Honored in March 2007 when the United States Postal Service made a stamp commemorating him.

 A number of schools are named after him in various states.  He is a protagonist in Matthew Pearl's murder mystery The Dante Club.