Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-82), American poet.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a professor at Harvard University for seventeen years and in this time became one of the most popular poets of his day.

He retired in 1854 to give up his time to writing poetry and the next year published his most famous poem, Hiawatha.

There is a memorial to Longfellow in Westminster Abbey (London), the first to be given to an American poet.

See Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings (Library of America)