Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was one of the most famous Americans of his day. His influence on American mythology, through poems like The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere , was profound.

For Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, that’s his very first published poem, “The Battle of Lovell’s Pond,” which recognizes fallen soldiers whose “names are engraven on honor’s bright crest.” ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poems such as “The Song of Hiawatha” and “Paul Revere’s Ride” have inspired many Americans. He is credited with raising the profile of American poetry in ...

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Varun, News Exec: “A Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow My grandfather — who used to make ... it was a couple of weeks before I recently got around to reading the 1838 poem he recommended, ...

A lot of us learned about the revolutionary sprint through Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s iconic poem that begins, “Listen, my children, and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.” ...

Somewhere in the middle decades of the 20th century, advanced poetic taste decided that sentimentalism in general, and the sentimentalism of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) in particular, was ...

The answer was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ... But Eliot was lionized by many people who didn’t read his poetry, whereas Longfellow’s books were devoured not only by the literati but by ...