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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American poet and educator (–)
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, – March 24, ) was an American poet and educator.
His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", "The Song of Hiawatha", and "Evangeline". He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England.
Longfellow was born in Portland, District of Maine, Massachusetts (now Portland, Maine).
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He graduated from Bowdoin College and became a professor there and, later, at Harvard College after studying in Europe. His first major poetry collections were Voices of the Night () and Ballads and Other Poems ().
He retired from teaching in to focus on his writing, and he lived the remainder of his life in the Revolutionary War headquarters of George Washington i