Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1807 – 1882
1807 – 1882
One of the most widely known and best-loved poets of the 19th century, whose poems shaped American culture and identity
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These lines are from Longfellow’s poem
These lines are from Longfellow’s poem
Click to read Longfellow’s famous poem Paul Revere’s Ride (5)
Virtual Visit: Click here to tour Longfellow’s boyhood home in Portland, Maine (6)
Longfellow’s boyhood home on Congress Street in Portland (7)
Longfellow in 1850 at age 43 (9)
Click below to learn more about the history of Longfellow’s home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which was also Washington’s Headquarters during the Revolutionary War (11)
Virtual Visit: Click below to tour Craigie House in Cambridge, Massachusetts where Longfellow lived for more than 45 years and wrote his famous poems (12)
Visual Text: The Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his study, then and now (13)
Longfellow’s Works
Longfellow’s Works
Click here to read “The 10 Greatest Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow” ~ According to The Society of Classical Poets (14)
Click here to read “The 10 Greatest Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow” ~ According to The Society of Classical Poets (14)
Longfellow Sampler ~ CLICK BELOW for a searchable database of all of Longfellow’s works to find the poems and writings that are most interesting or meaningful to you (15)
Published in 1847, Evangeline tells the tale of a girl from Acadie (now Nova Scotia) searching for her lost love Gabriel after the Great Expulsion in 1755, when 11,500 Acadians were forcibly removed from their homes by the British and deported on ships. Click here if you’d like to read more of the poem. (17)
Click below to read Longfellow’s poem Cross of Snow written 18 years after his wife’s tragic death (20)
Click to visit Longfellow’s resting place at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts (23)
Click below to read the inscription on Longfellow’s bust at Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey (22)
Longfellow’s obituary appearing in the
New York Times on March 25, 1882 (24)
Photo Credits and Sources from top to bottom of page:
1. Portrait of Longfellow: http://victorian-era.org/the-rainy-day-by-henry-wadsworth-longfellow.html
2. https://quotefancy.com/quote/826709/Henry-Wadsworth-Longfellow-The-holiest-of-holidays-are-those-kept-by-ourselves-in-silence
3. https://www.hwlongfellow.org/poems_poem.php?pid=226
4. Allaback, Steven. “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.” The American Renaissance in New England, edited by Joel Myerson, Gale, 1978. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 1. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1200001580/LitRC?u=brun84057&sid=bookmark-LitRC&xid=a9dcc900. Accessed 21 Mar. 2022.
5. https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/midnight-ride-of-paul-revere-a-singable-picture-book/
6. https://daydreamunderthestars.com/2019/05/26/the-wadsworth-longfellow-house/
7. http://images.oakville.halinet.on.ca/67501/data
8. https://www.c-span.org/video/?435272-1/wadsworth-longfellow-house#
9. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/268330
10. https://mainehistory.wordpress.com/2015/02/23/13-amazing-facts-about-henry-wadsworth-longfellow-you-probably-didnt-know/
11. https://www2.finebooksmagazine.com/issue/1501/longfellow-1.phtml
12. https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery.htm?pg=3539810&id=961BB3C5-1DD8-B71B-0B0EF77F188B2C57
13. https://www2.finebooksmagazine.com/issue/1501/longfellow-1.phtml
14. https://classicalpoets.org/2018/01/02/10-greatest-poems-by-henry-wadsworth-longfellow/
15. https://www.hwlongfellow.org/poems_front.php
16. http://walfamily.net/wordpress/blog/2012/08/15/prologue-from-evangeline/
17. https://poets.org/poem/evangeline-tale-acadie
18. https://www.nps.gov/articles/fanny-henry-a-romance.htm
19. https://mountauburn.org/henry-wadsworth-longfellow-cross-of-snow/
20. https://allpoetry.com/The-Cross-of-Snow
21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDRfRBsH6N4
22. http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/brock/51.html
23. https://mountauburn.org/henry-wadsworth-longfellow-1807-1882-2/
24. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5607609/obit-henry-wadsworth-longfellow-desc/
25. https://www.mainepublic.org/dead-writers
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