henry wadsworth longfellow

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Definition of henry wadsworth longfellow in English English dictionary: a popular US poet who wrote long poems about US legends (=old and popular stories of brave people, great events or adventures etc) . His most famous poems are The Song of Hiawatha, The Courtship of Miles Standish, Paul Revere's Ride, and The Wreck of the Hesperus (1807-82). born Feb. 27, 1807, Portland, Mass., U.S. died March 24, 1882, Cambridge, Mass. U.S. poet. Longfellow graduated from Bowdoin College and traveled in Europe before joining the modern-language faculties of Bowdoin (1829-35) and Harvard (1836-54). His Voices of the Night (1839), containing "The Psalm of Life" and "The Light of the Stars," first won him popularity. Ballads and Other Poems (1841), including "The Wreck of the Hesperus" and "The Village Blacksmith," swept the nation, as did his long poem Evangeline (1847). With Hiawatha (1855), The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858), and Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863), including "Paul Revere's Ride," he became the best-loved American poet of the 19th century. He later translated Dante's Divine Comedy (1867) and published his intended masterpiece, Christus, a trilogy on Christianity (1872). The hallmarks of his verse are gentleness, simplicity, and an idealized vision of the world; {i} (1807-1882) United States poet

henry wadsworth longfellow