Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807–1882)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Maine. After graduating from Bowdoin College, he traveled in Europe but returned to become a professor of languages at Bowdoin and later at Harvard. Longfellow is associated with a group of poets known as the Fireside Poets, since their work often attracted a family audience that would read the poems aloud while sitting around the fireplace. In many of his poems, Longfellow strove to portray the myths and values of the still young nation. After the publication of his second book of poems, he became recognized as one of the major poets in the United States.

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