Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27th, 1807 in Portland, Maine.
He had been suffering from peritonitis..
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow died, surrounded by family, on Friday, March 24th, 1882.
Some of his works including "Paul Revere\'s Ride" and "The Song of Haiwatha" may have rewritten the facts but became essential parts of the American psyche and culture.
As a friend once wrote to him, "no other poet was so fully recognized in his lifetime".
Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day.
Longfellow was also part of a group who became known as The Fireside Poets which also included William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Snr.
It was published in 1867.
He spent several years translating Dante Alighieri\'s Divine Comedy.
In his attempts to save her Longfellow had also been badly burned and was unable to attend her funeral.
On July 10th, 1861, after suffering horrific burns the previous day.
The Song of Haiwatha, perhaps his best known and enjoyed work was published in 1855.
In 1854, Longfellow retired from Harvard, to devote himself entirely to writing.
On November 1st, 1847, the epic poem Evangeline was published.
On May 10th, 1843, after seven years in pursuit of a chance for new love, Longfellow received word from Fanny Appleton that she agreed to marry him.
His reputation as a poet, and a commercial one at that, was set.
Ballads and Other Poems was published in 1841 and included "The Village Blacksmith" and "The Wreck of the Hesperus".
In late 1839, Longfellow published Hyperion, a book in prose inspired by his trips abroad.
She is dead - She is dead! All day I am weary and sad".
Longfellow wrote "One thought occupies me night and day...
After weeks of illness she died, at the age of 22 on November 29th, 1835.
Sadly, in October 1835, she miscarried at some six months.
During a trip to Europe Mary became pregnant.
He also published a travel book, Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea.
His first published book was in 1833, a translation of poems by the Spanish poet Jorge Manrique.
They settled in Brunswick.
On September 14th, 1831, Longfellow married Mary Storer Potter. the fact is, I most eagerly aspire after future eminence in literature, my whole soul burns most ardently after it, and every earthly thought centers in it...." After graduation travels in Europe occupied the next three years and he seemed to easily absorb any language he set himself to learn.
He was already thinking of a career in literature and, in his senior year, wrote to his father: "I will not disguise it in the least...
He published his first poem, "The Battle of Lovell\'s Pond", in the Portland Gazette on November 17th, 1820.
As a young boy, it was obvious that he was very studious and he quickly became fluent in Latin.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27th, 1807 in Portland, Maine
