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After graduating in 1825, he was offered a job as professor of modern languages at his alma mater. Then he went to Europe to study language, against the wish of his father who thought his son should become a lawyer. For 4 years, he studied languages in France, Spain, Italy, Germany and England. In Madrid, he spent time with Washington Irving and was particularly impressed by the author's work ethic. Irving encouraged the young Longfellow to pursue writing. He served as a professor of modern languages at Bowdoin College from 1829--1835. He taught modern languages at Harvard from 1836 to 1854.
Mary Storer Potter became Longfellow's first wife in 1831 and died four years later.
Reputation
1. The poet's 70th birthday in 1877 was celebrated around the country 2. Longfellow was the first American poet whose bust was placed in the Poets' Corner in Westminster church, London. Besides, His marble image is seen there. The Poets' Corner was a part of the tombs of Westminster church. Chauபைடு நூலகம்er, Shakespeare, Jane Austin Dickens, Byron… it’s the place where English poet were buried.

Lyric poetry is a form of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person.[1]The term derives from a form of Ancient Greek literature, thelyric, which was defined by its musical accompaniment, usually on a stringed instrument known as a lyre.[2] The term owes its importance in literary theory to the division developed byAristotle between three broad categories of poetry: lyrical, dramatic and epic.
REPUTATION

He was considered one of the most popular American poets of 19th Century. (most popular is not the word used on ordinary people, most popular means welcome by the public, people like him )
9. His first marriage ended in 1835, when his wife died. In 1843, he married the daughter of a wealthy industrialist who gave him wealth, and domestic happiness. 10. He spent his last days in Cambridge. 11. He is the only American man of letters to be honored with a bust in the Poet’s Conner in Westminster.
REPUTATION

Until now we can you see, Longfellow is a lucky writer compared with other writers who are nameless while they are living. Some of them had no readers or even misunderstood by people. But Longfellow was popular and loved by people while his living time.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)




Fireside Poets writing lyric poems known for their musicality the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy Professor a translator
His poetry has been a continuous presence in our language ever since. He is quoted by merchants and manufacturers on their products, by journalists and preachers in their articles and sermons, and by ordinary men and women in their daily lives. Some of his lines and phrases are so well known that they have entered the American language. .
(1807-1882)
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first non-British writer for whom a commemorative sculpted bust was placed in Poet's Corner of Westminst er Abbey in London
I. HIS LIFE

CONTRIBUTION
He is the most important one of the “New England Poets (other poets: William Cullen Bryant, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes and John Greenleaf Whittier). Based on his knowledge of European literary tradition, he became a master of sonnets and reflective lyric.




Some of his lines and phrases – "A boy's will is the wind's will," 男孩的梦是风之梦，男孩的理想大如天。 "Ships that pass in the night," 过夜的船――萍水相逢的人 "Footprints on the sands of time" 能把足迹留在时间的流沙上 Today they are often quoted without the speaker even knowing Longfellow penned the words

FEATURES OF LONGFELLOW’S POEMS

Theme: He talked about the masterity of birth, death and love. Always took active attitude towards life, expressing his love for nature and past.
LONGFELLOW’S INFLUENCE



Longfellow also influenced America's artistic and popular culture. His works inspired artists and composers, and his poems were read and recited not only in parlors and schoolrooms, but also at civic ceremonies. Schools, geographic locations, and ordinary products, even cigars, were named for him and for characters from his poems. In the 1870s, schoolchildren celebrated his birthday as if it were a national holiday.

He did a great service to American literature in domesticating certain forms from European literature. His search for new forms and his efforts in conveying didacticism in popular poems brought him a popularity with the common readers in America that has never been approached by any other poet.
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Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807, to Stephen Longfellow and Zilpah (Wadsworth) Longfellow in Portland, Maine, and he grew up in what is now known as the WadsworthLongfellow House. Henry was enrolled in a dame school (an early form of a private elementary school in Englishspeaking countries. ) at the age of three and by age six was enrolled at the private Portland Academy. In the fall of 1822, the 15-year-old Longfellow enrolled at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, alongside his brother Stephen.