• The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (London, 1852), with illustrations by John Gilbert. The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems (1858).
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a Harvard scholar versed in several European languages. He was heavily influenced by Romanticism and made a name...
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). The most popular American poet of the 19th century, a storyteller, whose works are still cited � or parodied.
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a commanding figure in the cultural life of nineteenth-century America.
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was one of the most widely known and best-loved American poets of the 19th century.
  • Further Reading. The standard one-volume edition of The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was edited by H. E. Scudder (1893).
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine—then still part of Massachusetts—on February 27, 1807, the second son in a family of eight...
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807 Portland, Maine, U.S. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator...
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was inspired to write this poem in 1863 during the Civil War when his son went off to fight for the Union against his wishes.
  • They had dinner parties, kept up wide-ranging correspondences, and spent their summers by the shore in Nahant. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1860.