Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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was born on February 27, 1807. He was a widely read and highly regarded poet of the nineteenth century. Longfellow was successful in both lyric and narrative poetry and later wrote incredible sonnets. He was not a poet of extremes, intense passion, or tragedy. He was gentle and optimistic and ....
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.... the themes and topics he used were a varying spectrum of everything, but himself. Some of his works included the topics of; innocence in “Evangeline,” bridging the gap between Anglo and Indian America in “The Song of Hiawatha,” and Puritan New England in “The Courtship of Miles Standish.” These three poems mentioned above are his most famous long poems.
Longfellow received wide public recognition with his volume of verse “Voices of the Night” (1839), which contained the poem ....
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