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'''Henry Wadsworth Longfellow''' ([[February 27]], [[1807]] – [[March 24]], [[1882]]) was an [[United States|America]]n [[poet]] who wrote many works that are still famous today, including ''[[The Song of Hiawatha]]'', ''[[Paul Revere's Ride]]'' and ''[[Evangeline]]''. He also wrote the first American translation of [[Dante Alighieri]]'s ''[[Divine Comedy]]'' and was one of the five members of the group known as the [[Fireside Poets]]. Born in [[Maine]], Longfellow lived for most of his life in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], in a [http://lnhstest.brinkster.net/ house] occupied during the [[American Revolution]] by General [[George Washington]] and his staff.
==Early life and education==
Longfellow was born in 1807, the son of Stephen and Zilpah (Wadsworth) Longfellow on the corner of Hancock and Fore Streets in [[Portland, Maine]] in a [[Federal Style]] house (demolished in 1955) and grew up in what is now known as the [[Wadsworth-Longfellow House]]. His father was a lawyer and his maternal grandfather [[Peleg Wadsworth Sr.]] was a general in the [[American Revolutionary War ]]. He was descended from the Longfellow family who came to America in [[1676]] from [[Otley]] in [[Yorkshire]], [[England]] and from Priscilla and [[John Alden]] on his father's side.
Longfellow was enrolled in a "[[dame school]]" at the age of only three and by the age of six, when he entered the Portland Academy, he was able to read and write quite well. He remained at the Portland Academy until the age of fourteen and entered [[Bowdoin College]] in Brunswick, Maine in 1822. At Bowdoin, he met [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]], who became his lifelong friend.
==First European tour and professorship at Bowdoin==
After graduating in [[1825]], he was offered a professorship at [[Bowdoin College]] with the condition that he first spend some time in Europe for further language study. He toured Europe between [[1826]] and [[1829]], and upon returning went on to become the first professor of modern languages at Bowdoin, as well as a part-time librarian. During his years at the college, he wrote textbooks in French, Italian, and Spanish and a travel book, Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea. In [[1831]], he married Mary Storer Potter of Portland.ther he met a prostetute and married her.
==Second European tour and professorship at Harvard==
In 1834, Longfellow was offered the Smith Professorship of French and Spanish at [[Harvard]] with the stipulation that he spend a year or so in Europe to perfect his German. Tragically, his young wife died during the trip in [[Rotterdam]] after suffering a miscarriage in [[1835]]. When he returned to the United States, Longfellow took up the professorship at [[Harvard University]]. He began publishing his poetry, including "Voices of the Night" in 1839 and "Ballads and Other Poems", which included his famous poem "The Village Blacksmith", in 1841.
==Marriages==
[[Image:Fanny Appleton Longfellow Drawing.jpeg|thumb|right|Drawing of Fanny Appleton Longfellow]]
Longfellow was a devoted husband and father with a keen feeling for the pleasures of home. But his marriages ended in sadness and tragedy — the first to Mary Potter, of Portland, who died in 1835;
He then married Frances "Fanny" Appleton. Fanny's father bought the [http://lnhstest.brinkster.net/ Craigie House], overlooking the [[Charles River]] as a wedding present to the pair. While he was courting Miss Appleton, he frequently walked from Harvard to her home in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], crossing the river via the West Boston Bridge. That bridge was subsequently demolished and replaced in 1906 by a new bridge, which was eventually renamed as the [[Longfellow Bridge]].
His love for Fanny is evident in the following lines from Longfellow's only love-poem, the sonnet "The Evening Star," which he wrote in October, 1845: "O my beloved, my sweet Hersperus!/ My morning and my evening star of love!"
Longfellow settled in Cambridge, where he remained for the rest of his life, although he spent summers at his home in [[Nahant, Massachusetts|Nahant]].
He retired from Harvard in [[1854]], devoting himself entirely to writing. He was awarded an honorary doctorate of Laws from Harvard in [[1859]].
after she died. he would have sexual intercourse with her dead body
==The death of Frances==
On a hot July day, while sealing her daughter's curls in an envelope, Fanny's light summer dress caught fire.
Longfellow attempted to extinguish the flames, badly burning himself. Fanny died the next day, on July 10, 1861. Longfellow was devastated by her death and never fully recovered. The strength of his grief is still evident in these lines from a sonnet, "The Cross of Snow" (1879) which he wrote eighteen years later to commemorate her death: he wrote it in cemon he had orgasimed out before she died while he wrote the story he left cemon by just thinking about his mom whene he wrote this story heb was high as a mother donkey
:Such is the cross I wear upon my breast
:These eighteen years, through all the changing scenes
:And seasons, changeless since the day she died.
==The death of Longfellow==
He died on [[March 24]] [[1882]].
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]. In [[1884]] he was the first American poet for whom a commemorative sculpted bust was placed in Poet's Corner of [[Westminster Abbey]] in [[London]].
==Longfellow's work==
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His work was immensely popular during his time and is still somewhat today, but many modern critics consider him too sentimental. His poetry is based on familiar and easily understood themes with simple, clear, and flowing language. His poetry created an audience in [[United States|America]] and contributed to creating American [[mythology]].
Longfellow's home in Cambridge, the [[Longfellow National Historic Site]], is a [[U.S. National Historic Site]], [[National Historic Landmark]], and on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]. A 2/3 scale replica was built in [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]] at [[Minnehaha Park]] in [[1906]] and once served as a centerpiece for a local [[zoo]].
Noted minister, writer and abolitionist [[Edward Everett Hale]] founded organizations called the Harry Wadsworth Clubs.
==Quotes and manuscript==
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And children coming home from school <br />
Look in at the open door (...)
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