The Fireside Poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807 in Portland, Maine to the mother Zilpah Wadsworth and the father Stephen Longfellow who was a politician and a lawyer. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an influential American poet, translator (He was the first American poet to translate Dante Alighieris epic poem The Divine Comedy) and a professor at the Harvard University. One of Longfellows most pretentious work is Evangeline: A tale of Acadie, an epic poem which follows the Acadian girl Evangeline and her search for her love Gabriel, a poem set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians (The forced removal by the British of the French colonist from the present day US state of Maine and several Canadian provinces, dated†¦show more content†¦From 1813 until 1821, Longfellow attended the Portland Academy, and it was in 1820 that his first poem was published, in the Portland Gazette, the local newspaper. Longfellow would continue his education at Bowdoin College, an institution for which his father was a regent. In 1825, Longfellow graduated fourth in his class, he would later continue to publish poetry throughout his time in college and during that time of his, Longfellow befriended the American author Nathaniel Hawthorne who would come to be one of Americas premier epic representatives of the nineteenth century. Bowdoin College came to promise Longfellow a chair in modern languages on the condition that he would tour Europe and continue his studies over there. From 1826 until 1829, Longfellow travelled throughout Italy, France, Germany and Spain. This travel had a deep impact on Longfellow: the traces of the European tours influence can be seen not only in Longfellows choice of subjects, but also in his mode of life. Longfellow would later come to marry an old childhood friend of his; Mary Steer Potter, a woman renowned for her beauty. While touring Europe a second time so gain a better knowledge of Scandinavian and German languages with his wife Mary, after being offered the position as a professor of modern languages at Harvard