Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (27 February 1807 – 24 March 1882 / Portland, Maine)

By: Younique Youvonn Dugger

Bio(1):

• studied at Bowdoin College
• Became a professor at Bowdoin and, later, at Harvard College.
• retired from teaching in 1854 to focus on his writing, living the remainder of his life in Cambridge, Massachusetts

BIO(2)

• His first wife, Mary Potter, died in 1835 after a miscarriage.
• His second wife, Frances Appleton, died in 1861 after sustaining burns from her dress catching fire.
•  After her death, Longfellow had difficulty writing poetry for a time. He died in 1882.
  
  

Voices of the Night (1839)

Ballads and Other Poems (1841)

Poems on Slavery (1842)

The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems (1845)

Birds of Passage (1845)

The Seaside and the Fireside (1850)

The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems (1858)