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US poet. He is remembered for his ballads (‘Excelsior’, ‘The Village Blacksmith’, ‘The Wreck of the Hesperus’) and the mythic narrative epics Evangeline (1847), The Song of Hiawatha (1855), and The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858).
Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin College and taught modern languages there and at Harvard University 1835–54, after which he travelled widely. The most popular US poet of the 19th century, Longfellow was also an adept translator. His other works include six sonnets on Dante, a translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, and Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863), which includes the popular poem ‘Paul Revere's Ride’.
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