Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807–82), U.S. poet, one of the most popular poets of his generation. A contemporary of Hawthorne at Bowdoin College, he became a professor of modern languages there (1829–35) and at Harvard (1836–54). His principal works were the narrative poems Evangeline (1847), The Song of Hiawatha (1855), and The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858), and Paul Revere's Ride (1861). Famous individual poems include “The Wreck of the Hesperus” and “Excelsior.”