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Longfellow (HENRY WADS- WORTH an American)

HENRY WADS- WORTH, an American poet; born in Portland, Me., Feb. 27, 1807; was graduated in 1825 at Bowdoin College. In 1826 he accepted the professorship of modern languages at Bowdoin, spending, however, the next three years in Europe.

In 1835 appeared "Outre-Mer," a volume of prose sketches, and in the same year he was elected to the Smith professorship of modern languages at Harvard. After spending another year in Europe, he entered on his professorship in 1836. In 1839 he published "Hyperion, a Romance," and "Voices of the Night." "Ballads and other Poems," and "Poems on Slavery" appeared in 1842; "The Spanish Student," a drama, in 1843; "The Belfry of Bruges" in 1846; "Evangeline" in 1847. In 1845 he published an anthology, "The Poets and Poetry of Europe." His other works were: "Kavanagh" (1849); "The Seaside and the Fireside" (1850); "The Golden Legend" (1851); "Hiawatha" (1855); the "Courtship of Miles Standish" and "Birds of Passage" (1858); "Tales of a Wayside Inn" (1863); "Flower de Luce" (1866); a translation of Dante's "Divine Comedy" " (1867-1870); "New England Tragedies" (1869); "The Divine Tragedy" (1871); "Three Books of Song" (1872); "Aftermath" (1873); "The Hanging of the the Masque of Pandora" (1875); "Keramos" (1878); "Ultima Thule" (1880); "In the Harbor" (1882); and "Michael Angelo," the fragment of a drama HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1883). He resigned his chair at Harvard in 1854. His poems are equally popular 1854 on both sides of the Atlantic. His best and most enduring work is to be found among his narrative and lyric poems.

He died in Cambridge, Mass., March 24, 1882.