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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Born: 1807

Birthplace: Maine

Died: 1882

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and writer. His works talked about many subjects, including overcoming hardships and life in America before and after the Civil War.

He became the most popular writer of his time in the United States, but his published works also gained fame in the entire English-speaking world.

In England alone, there were 24 publishing companies that published his books.

Those that admired him included Charles Dickens, Charles Baudelaire, and Abraham Lincoln.

• Longfellow was born in what was then Massachusetts but later became Portland, Maine.

  His father was a Portland lawyer as well as a Congressional member, and his mother was the daughter of a Revolutionary War hero, and he had seven brothers and sisters.

• Longfellow had the extensive international experience when he studied in Europe after he graduated from Bowdoin College.

  He spent three years in Europe studying mo