Favorite poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was the most popular American poet of his time, and one of the most famous American Poets of all time. A former teacher who fulfilled his dream to make a living as a poet, Longfellow taught at Bowdoin and Harvard, was eventually honored for his poetry with degrees from Oxford and Cambridge, and is one of the few Americans to have a monument dedicated to his memory in Westminister Abbey. This choice collection of his works, which reflects his mastery of a rich variety of poetic forms and meters, included one of his narrative poems, The Courtship of Miles Standish. Here, too, are such famous poems as The Village Blacksmith, The Wreck of the Hesperus, :The Children's Hour, Paul Revere's Ride, and other poems on subjects ranging from lost youth and Giotto's Tower to slavery and the building of a ship.