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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 writing in the headquarters of of
George Washington
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the Revolutionary War for the remainder.
Dress of
Frances Appleton Longfellow
, his second wife, caught fire; she then sustained burns and afterward died in 1861. After her death, Longfellow had difficulty writing and focused on from foreign languages.
Longfellow wrote musicality of many known lyrics and often presented stories of mythology and legend. He succeeded most overseas of his day. He imitated European styles and wrote too sentimentally for critics.
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