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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. An eminent American poet; born at Portland, ME, Feb. 27, 1807; died at Cambridge, MA, March 24, 1882. He was a graduate of Bowdoin College in 1825. His early years were occupied in travel, and in studies in Spanish, French, and Italian literatures, and translations from each of them. ‘Outre Mer, a Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea’ was published in serial form in 1833–34 anonymously, but under his own name in 1835; ‘Hyperion’ followed (1839); ‘Voices of the Night’ (1839); ‘Ballads and Other Poems’ (1842); ‘Poems on Slavery’ (1842); ‘The Spanish Student’ (1843). His important collection ‘Poets and Poetry of Europe,’ still a favorite anthology, was published in 1845. Then came ‘The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems’ (1846); ‘Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie’ (1847); ‘Kavanagh, a Tale’ (1849); ‘The Seaside and the Fireside’ (1850); ‘A Volume of Poems’ (1850); ‘The Golden Legend’ (1851); ‘Song of Hiawatha’ (1855); ‘Prose Works,’ a series of essays, collected (1857); ‘Poems,’ complete edition (1857); ‘Courtship of Miles Standish’ (1858); ‘Tales of a Wayside Inn’ (1863); ‘Household Poems’ (1865). He translated and published Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ in 1867; ‘A New England Tragedy’ came next (1868); ‘The Building of a Ship’ (1870); ‘Excelsior’ (1872); ‘Christus: a Mystery,’ in a volume comprising several of the foregoing (1872); ‘Aftermath’ (1873); ‘The Hanging of the Crane’ (1875); ‘The Masque of Pandora and Other Poems’ (1875). He edited his ‘Poems of Places’ in 31 vols. (1876–79); ‘Poems of the Old South Church’ (1877); ‘The Skeleton in Armor’ (1878); ‘Kéramos and Other Poems’ (1879). ‘From my Arm-Chair’ was printed in 1879; the volume ‘Ultima Thule’ in 1880; ‘Michael Angelo’ in 1884; ‘Complete Poetical and Prose Works with Later Poems,’ with a biographical sketch by Octavius B. Frothingham, in 1880–83. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).