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Henry

Wadsworth

Longfellow

5th Cousin

5 times removed

Common Ancestor
Born: Died:
27 February 1807 24 March 1882
Father: Robert Bartlett
Puddletown, Dorset, England Portland, Maine Cambridge, Massachusetts
1603 - 1676 Henry Wadsworth was an American poet and
educator whose works include "Paul Revere's
Mother: Mary Warren Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was
Shoreditch, London, England also the first American to translate Dante
1610 – 1683 Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the Fireside

Poets from New England.
Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, which was
then still part of Massachusetts at that time. He
studied at Bowdoin College and became a professor
at Bowdoin and later at Harvard College after
spending time in Europe. His first major poetry
collections were Voices of the Night (1839)
and Ballads and Other Poems (1841). He retired from
teaching in 1854 to focus on his writing, and he lived
the remainder of his life in the Revolutionary War
th
headquarters of George Washington (6 cousin, 7
times removed) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His
first wife Mary Potter died in 1835 after a
miscarriage. His second wife Frances Appleton died
in 1861 after sustaining burns when her dress caught
fire. After her death, Longfellow had difficulty writing

poetry for a time and focused on translating works
from foreign languages.
Longfellow wrote many lyric poems known for their musicality and often presenting stories of
mythology and legend. He became the most popular American poet of his day and also enjoyed
success overseas. He has been criticized by some, however, for imitating European styles and
writing specifically for the masses.

Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. As a friend once wrote, "no other poet was so
fully recognized in his lifetime". Many of his works helped shape the American character and its

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