Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)

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Address to the National Conference of Unitarian and Other Christian Churches, September 25, 1901

What the Theater at Hull House Has Done for the Neighborhood People (extract), March 29, 1902

Autobiographical Notes Upon Twenty Years at Hull-House: The Resources of the Immigrant, August 1910

Old Glory: The Flag of Hope for World Peace, 1915

Two Bunker Hills, November 1926

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Birth Date

1807-02-27

Death Date

1882-03-24

Birthplace

Portland, Maine

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet who wrote "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline, translated Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, and was one of the five Fireside Poets. he traveled to Europe for three years after graduating from Bowdoin College in order to study modern languages. He then returned to Maine to teach languages at Bowdoin. The death of his wife prompted Longfellow to spend a year in Germany and Switzerland out of grief. In 1836 he became a professor at Harvard. In 1839 he published his first collection of poems, Voices of the Night. Remarried to Frances Appleton in 1843. In 1854, Longfellow quit teaching in order to pursue his poetry full-time.

Longfellow married Mary Storer Potter in 1831. He later remarried to Fanny Appleton in 1843. They had six children together. Longfellow died in 1882.

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1902

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“Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed July 29, 2025, https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/1762.