Henry longfellow short biography

Biographical Sketch by Wendi Capehart

Longfellow was once considered America's foremost poet, skilled enough to rival even the great poets of Britain.

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In his time he outsold Tennyson -- in England! He is the only American poet represented by a bust in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine on February 27th, 1807. His father was Stephen Longfellow, a lawyer and a Congressman.

His mother was Zilpha Wadsworth, a descendant of Puritans John Alden and Priscilla who had arrived on the Mayflower, and whom Longfellow immortalized in one of his poems ("speak for yourself, John .

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. ."). He was one of eight children, four boys and four girls. Samuel Longfellow, Henry's brother, said that their father "was at once kind and strict, bringing up his children in habits of respect and obedience, of unselfishness, the dread of debt, and the faithful performance of duty."

His childhood was a