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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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Extremely popular works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet, in the United States in his lifetime, include The Song of Hiawatha in 1855 and a translation from 1865 to 1867 of Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow educated. His originally wrote the "Paul Revere's Ride" and "Evangeline." From New England, he first completed work of the fireside.

Bowdoin College graduated Longefellow, who served as a professor, afterward studied in Europe, and later moved at Harvard. After a miscarriage, Mary Potter Longfellow, his first wife, died in 1835. He first collected Voices of the Night (1839) and Ballads and Other Poems (1841).

From teaching, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow retired in 1854 to focus on his wri ...more

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	The Song of Hiawatha 3.89 avg rating — 3,357 ratings — published 1855 — 961 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 — 2,827 ratings — published 1861 — 9 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 3.92 avg rating — 2,742 ratings — published 1847 — 1068 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 — 737 ratings — published 1871 — 42 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 — 618 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 — 489 ratings — published 1858 — 284 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 4.24 avg rating — 350 ratings — published 1859 — 13 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 — 340 ratings — published 1879 — 26 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 — 321 ratings — published 1863 — 300 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 4.20 avg rating — 278 ratings — published 1848 — 26 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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January 2022 Old School Classics Group Read

The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866, 188 pages

60 votes, 33.1%

Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1853, 432 pages

37 votes, 20.4%

The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes by Anonymous, 1270, 343 pages

29 votes, 16.0%

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

25 votes, 13.8%

Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson, 1884. 432 pages

20 votes, 11.0%

The Alexiad by Anna Comnena, 1148, 560 pages

10 votes, 5.5%

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