Henry Wadsworth Longfell Biography
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| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow was born in USA in 1807. He was a popular poet of his time. He had
schooling at Portland Academy. Thereafter he joined Bowdoin College. He
graduated from there in 1825. He was a very good student. He was also a
scholar.
Longfellow was
recommended for the proposed Chair of the Modern Languages in his own college.
He became next the Professor of English at Harvard.
He was the second
son of his family. He married first Mary Storer Potter, a highly cultured lady
in 1831. After her death in 1835, he married Frances Appleton in 1843.
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| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Longfellow was an
extremely popular poet during his lifetime. He even resigned from his
professorship at Harvard to devote himself thoroughly to his writing. He
received a number of honours for his literary works of excellence. He is the
only American poet to be honoured after his death, with a bust in the Poets’
Corner of Westminster Abbey.
Longfellow’s
important literary works include A Tale of Acadie (1854); The Song of Hiawatha
(1855); Poetical and Prose Works, 14 vols. (1886-91); Letters ed-A Hilen, 2
vols. (1967); Representative Selections [of poetry] ed-O Shepard (1934).
Longfellow died on
March 24, 1882.
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