Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), American poet and educator. Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, USA, the second of eight children in the family of a lawyer. At the age of six he entered the Portland Academy where he excelled in Latin. He took to writing poetry, his first being published in 1820, and by graduation in 1825 had 40 poems published in various newspapers and magazines. He travelled extensively to Europe to study languages and taught at several major American universities. He continued to write, retiring in 1854 to focus on his work. His style was one of lyric poetry, identified by its musicality and often imparting moral and cultural values framed in popular legend. His most famous works include 'The Song of Hiawatha' and the first American translation of Dante's 'Divine Comedy'. Longfellow died of peritonitis in 1879. | |
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