Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
28-Aug-2026
United States
Poet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a Harvard student who had knowledge of several European languages. He was greatly influenced by Romanticism and made a name for himself as a poet and novelist with works such as Hyperion, Evangeline, Poems on Slavery and The Song of Hiawatha. He was also known for his rendition of Dante's The Divine Comedy.