Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in 1807 in Portland, Maine, then part of Massachusetts. His stays in Europe, from 1826, taught him French, Spanish, Italian and German, languages he taught at Bowdoin and then at Harvard until 1854. He lost his first wife in Rotterdam in 1835. In 1861, the dress of the second caught fire; she did not survive it, and he, burned while smothering the flames, could no longer shave and let his beard grow. He translated Dante Alighieri, became the most widely read living poet of his time and died in Cambridge in 1882.

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• PoetryEvangeline, A Tale of AcadieHenry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1847LiteraturePublic domain