Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)

Name:

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)

Title:

Member of Peucinian Society (federalist group) during his time at Bowdoin College.
Professor and librarian, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Professor, Harvard College
Five of Clubs (social group): Felton, Cornelius Conway (1807-1862); Hillard, George Stillman (1808-1879); Sumner, Charles (1811-1874).
Fireside Poet
Dante Club (Social and literary group working on translation of Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy"): Howells, Wiliam Dean (1837-1920); Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Norton, Charles Eliot (1827-1908); 3 volume, English edition was published in 1867.

Born:

02/27/1807

Birthplace:

Portland, ME

Died:

03/24/1882

Death Location:

Cambridge, MA

Residence:

Portland, ME
Cambridge, MA
France, Spain, Italy, Germany and England: visited between 1826-1829 in order to study Spanish, French and Italian.
Europe: Revisted to study German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, and Icelandic in order to gain a professorship at Harvard.

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Poet.
Playwright.
Educator

Father:

Longfellow, Stephen (1776-1849)

Mother:

Wadsworth, Zilpah

Relations:

Longfellow, Stephen: brother.
Longfellow, Elizabeth: sister.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: met in college, life-long friend
Irving, Washington: spent time with Longfellow in Madrid, encouraged him to pursue writing.
Ward, Samuel Cutler (1814-1884): helped Longfellow to sell "The Hanging of the Crane" to New York Ledger for $3000, highest price ever paid for a poem.
Sumner, Charles (1811-1874): Closest firend of Longfellow's.

Spouse:

(1) Mary Storer Potter, 1831
(2) Frances Elizabeth Appleton, 1843

Children:

Charles Appleton, 1844-1893
Ernest Wadsworth, 1845-1921
Fanny, 1847-1848
Alice Mary, 1850-1928
Edith, 1853-1915
Anne Allegra, 1855-1934

Notes:

Wikipedia, "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", 07/15/2011.

Newton Arvin, Longfellow: His Life and Work. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963.