Long·fel·low

(lông′fĕl′ō, lŏng′-), Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882.

American poet. His works, extremely popular in the United States in his lifetime, include The Song of Hiawatha (1855) and a translation (1865-1867) of Dante's Divine Comedy.

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Longfellow

(ˈlɒŋˌfɛləʊ)

(Biography) Henry Wadsworth. 1807–82, US poet, noted particularly for his long narrative poems Evangeline (1847) and The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

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Long•fel•low

(ˈlɔŋˌfɛl oʊ, ˈlɒŋ-)

n.

Henry Wadsworth (ˈwɒdz wərθ) 1807–82, U.S. poet.

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Longfellow - United States poet remembered for his long narrative poems (1807-1882)

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At any rate, it was there that I read Longfellow's "Spanish Student," which I found in an old paper copy of his poems in one of the barrels, and I instantly conceived for it the passion which all things Spanish inspired in me.

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"Oh, she may be, as Longfellow says, `a fair maiden clothed with celestial grace'--but she'll be a stranger to me."

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Longfellow's I was worried, because I knew that couldn't be true."

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"You mean Professor Longfellow, Grandfather," said Laurence.

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That Longfellow chap most likely had written countless books of poetry.

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I cannot better introduce the few poems which I shall present for your consideration, than by the citation of the Proem to Longfellow's "Waif":

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Longfellow, I believe, is not yet at the Oxbow, else the winged horse would neigh at him.

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The South building would become the "Whittier School," the East, the "Longfellow," and the West, not to be neglected by culture's invasion, the "Oliver Wendell Holmes." But these changes were still to be effected.

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After my fellowship of toil and impracticable schemes with the dreamy brethren of Brook Farm; after living for three years within the subtle influence of an intellect like Emerson's; after those wild, free days on the Assabeth, indulging fantastic speculations, beside our fire of fallen boughs, with Ellery Channing; after talking with Thoreau about pine-trees and Indian relics in his hermitage at Walden; after growing fastidious by sympathy with the classic refinement of Hillard's culture; after becoming imbued with poetic sentiment at Longfellow's hearthstone -- it was time, at length, that I should exercise other faculties of my nature, and nourish myself with food for which I had hitherto had little appetite.

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Field, the veteran of the Atlantic Cable, from the poet Longfellow, and from many others.

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It is like a learned Hindoo showing off how much he knows by saying Longfellow lives in the United States - as if he lived all over the United States, and as if the country was so small you couldn't throw a brick there without hitting him.

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The project has received the enthusiastic support of the Longfellow Community Council, Executive Director Melanie Majors said in an interview.

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