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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Born

in Portland, District of Maine, Massachusetts, The United States

February 27, 1807

Died

March 24, 1882

Genre

Poetry

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", "The Song of Hiawatha", and "Evangeline". He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England.
Longfellow was born in Portland, District of Maine, Massachusetts (now Portland, Maine). He graduated from Bowdoin College and became a professor there and, later, at Harvard College after studying in Europe. His first major poetry collections were Voices of the Night (1839) and Ballads and Other Poems (1841). He retired from teaching in 1854 to focus on his writing, and he lived the remainder of his life in the Revolutionary War headquarters of Ge ...more

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	The Song of Hiawatha 3.89 avg rating — 3,314 ratings — published 1855 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ted Rand (Illustrator) 4.10 avg rating — 2,795 ratings — published 1861 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie 3.95 avg rating — 2,597 ratings — published 1847 — 973 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Favorite Poems 3.97 avg rating — 730 ratings — published 1871 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J.D. McClatchy (Editor) 4.11 avg rating — 616 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Courtship Of Miles Standish 3.66 avg rating — 472 ratings — published 1858 — 275 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 4.23 avg rating — 343 ratings — published 1859 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lawrence Buell (Introduction) 3.86 avg rating — 331 ratings — published 1879 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of a Wayside Inn 4.03 avg rating — 310 ratings — published 1863 — 306 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 4.21 avg rating — 277 ratings — published 1848 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (?)

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow

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“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: books, learning, love, serenity

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“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: acceptance, contentment, raining

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November 2023 Old School Classics Poll

The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1890, 129pp

62 votes, 27.7%

Letters from a Stoic by Seneca, 65, 254pp

36 votes, 16.1%

My Life by Anton Chekhov, 1896, 150pp

31 votes, 13.8%

The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith, 1889, 176pp

30 votes, 13.4%

A Rose in June: by Margaret Oliphant, 1874, 144pp

27 votes, 12.1%

The Adventures of Baron Münchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe, 1785, 224pp

19 votes, 8.5%

The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1855, 184pp

19 votes, 8.5%

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