One way to gain insight into someone’s psyche is to read what they wrote when they were 13. For Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, that’s his very first published poem, “The Battle of Lovell’s Pond,” which ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Author, Glenna Lang, Illustrator David R. Godine Publisher $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-87923-971-8 One of Longfellow's best known poems, a loving tribute to his three young ...

If there was ever such a thing as an Atlantic poet laureate, the honors would have to go to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, hands down. He was already the most renowned American poet of his day when he ...

LONG BEACH >> Poet. Professor. Parent. These are a few of the roles that defined the life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the namesake of Longfellow Elementary School in Bixby Knolls. Born in Portland, ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is the perfect poet for our current moment. A master at what’s now called social networking, he commanded, at the height of his fame, a virtual empire of readers at home and ...

(Parts of this column were first published as an editorial in the York Daily Record/Sunday News at Christmas in 2014) American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote to a friend in 1863: “I have been ...

Strolling around Disneyland this summer, re-acquainting myself with Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh, Mister Toad, Simba, and so on, the following reflection occurred to me: that these strange imagined ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In the nineteenth century, when poetry was a highly popular literary genre, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow rose to ...

From 1822 to 1825, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow attended Bowdoin College, where he would become one of America's great poets. On a fine September morning in 1822 the fast stagecoach from Portland to ...

Chef Staib prepares Lobster Pie and Deep Fried Quail Eggs. Everyone knows of Henry Longfellow's poem, "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere." The poem made an obscure silversmith into an enduring ...

In The New Yorker, James Marcus reviews Nicholas Basbanes’s new biography of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In his heyday, his fame rivaled the Queen of England: On March 26, 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson ...