Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the most popular American poet of the nineteenth century.

Longfellow is one of the most revered poets in the United States. His poems "Paul Revere's Ride", "Evangeline", "The Tale of Acadia" (1847) and "Psalm of Life" were included in elementary and high school curricula and have long been remembered by generations of readers who studied them as children. Longfellow revitalized American literary life by linking American poetry to European traditions outside of England.