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21 Nov 2009

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)


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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was born in Portland, Maine. His father was a lawyer and congressman, and was keen that his son should follow in his footsteps. However, it was academia that embraced Longfellow for his career choice. After college he spent three years in Europe preparing for a professorship of modern languages at Bowdoin college, where he taught from 1829 to 1835. And later went on to teach at Harvard. Eventually quitting in 1854 to write full time. Longfellow's later poetry reflected his interest in establishing an American mythology; and even during his own lifetime was celebrated as a pioneering American poet.


 
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