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- NAME: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- OCCUPATION: Author, Poet
- BIRTH DATE: February 27, 1807
- DEATH DATE: March 24, 1882
- EDUCATION: Bowdoin College
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Portland, Maine
- PLACE OF DEATH: Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is perhaps the best-loved American poet of the 19th-century. He wrote "The Village Blacksmith," Evangeline," and "Hiawatha."
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Born in Portland, Maine in 1807, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is perhaps the best-loved American poet of the 19th-century. He graduated from Bowdoin College, later to join the language faculty at Harvard. His Voices of the Night (1839) brought him to popular light. He later wrote the poems, "The Village Blacksmith," Evangeline," and "Hiawatha." His work is known for its simplicity and gentleness.© 2012 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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