Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (1807-82). US poet. He was professor of modern languages at Bowdoin and Harvard from 1829 to 1854, when he gave up teaching to concentrate on writing. His works, which were popular in both Europe and the US, include Ballads and Other Poems (1841), containing the poem ‘The Wreck of the Hesperus’, and the long narrative work The Song of Hiawatha (1855).
