The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Volume 2 - Softcover

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1535373288 ISBN 13: 9781535373289

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet, who achieved wide-spread fame by the mid-1800s. He was a very prolific writer of poetry. He wrote poems that continue to this very day to be the favorites of many people, such as Paul Revere’s Ride and many more.

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About the Author

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in 1807 in Portland, Maine, and he became a professor of modern languages at Harvard. His most famous narrative poems include The Song of Hiawatha, Paul Reveres Ride, "The Village Blacksmith," "The Wreck of the Hesperus." From his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne, Longfellow got a brief outline of a story from which he composed one of his most favorite poems, 'Evangeline'. The original story had Evangeline wandering about New England in search of her bridegroom. One of the first poets to take the landscape and stories of North America as his subjects, Longfellow became immensely popular all over the world, and he was the first American commemorated in the Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey. He was given honorary degrees at the great universities of Oxford and Cambridge, invited to Windsor by Queen Victoria, and called by request upon the Prince of Wales. He was also chosen a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and of the Spanish Academy. He died on March 24, 1882.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1535373288
• ISBN 13: 9781535373289
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 582