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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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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", "The Song of Hiawatha", and "Evangeline". He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England.
Longfellow was born in Portland, District of Maine, Massachusetts (now Portland, Maine). He graduated from Bowdoin College and became a professor there and, later, at Harvard College after studying in Europe. His first major poetry collections were Voices of the Night (1839) and Ballads and Other Poems (1841). He retired from teaching in 1854 to focus on his writing, and he lived the remainder of his life in the Revolutionary War headquarters of Ge ...more

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	The Song of Hiawatha 3.89 avg rating — 3,273 ratings — published 1855 — 884 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 — 2,771 ratings — published 1861 — 71 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 3.95 avg rating — 2,562 ratings — published 1847 — 971 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 — 720 ratings — published 1871 — 40 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) 4.12 avg rating — 610 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 — 468 ratings — published 1858 — 275 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 4.23 avg rating — 342 ratings — published 1859 — 10 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) 3.87 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 1879 — 24 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 4.02 avg rating — 306 ratings — published 1863 — 306 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 — 279 ratings — published 1848 — 21 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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“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.”
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tags: acceptance, contentment, raining

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January 2022 Old School Classics Group Read

The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866, 188 pages

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Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1853, 432 pages

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

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

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Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson, 1884. 432 pages

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