WRITER

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1807 - 1882

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", "The Song of Hiawatha", and "Evangeline". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow has received more than 3,185,506 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is the 1,570th most popular writer (down from 1,235th in 2019), the 1,929th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,557th in 2019) and the 170th most popular American Writer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is most famous for his poetry and his translations of Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" into English.

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Notable Works

Poems
1800
Evangeline
1847
Hyperion
1839
The song of Hiawatha
1855
The courtship of Miles Standish
1858
Outre-mer
Europe
1833

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ranks 1,570 out of 7,302. Before him are Anna de Noailles, Philippe de Commines, Hugh Lofting, Robert Brasillach, Jean-François Marmontel, and Jonas Lie. After him are Sister Nivedita, Gustav Landauer, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Ahmad ibn Mājid, Alistair MacLean, and Eino Leino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1807, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ranks 13. Before him are Lajos Batthyány, Bezmiâlem Sultan, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, Princess Feodora of Leiningen, Joseph Petzval, and Harriet Taylor Mill. After him are Théophile-Jules Pelouze, Princess Charlotte of Württemberg, Alfred Vail, Joseph E. Johnston, Abdülkerim Nadir Pasha, and Princess Cecilia of Sweden. Among people deceased in 1882, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ranks 24. Before him are Ewelina Hańska, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Sergey Nechayev, Henri Giffard, Mikhail Skobelev, and Henry Draper. After him are Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Joachim Raff, Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Alfred Escher.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ranks 1,929 out of 20,380. Before him are Jean Arthur (1900), Whitey Bulger (1929), Frances Conroy (1953), Nancy Fraser (1947), Armand Assante (1949), and Natalie Zemon Davis (1928). After him are Bruce McCandless II (1937), Henry A. Wallace (1888), Maria Branyas (1907), Ted Turner (1938), Moby (1965), and Mick Foley (1965).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ranks 170. Before him are Edward Albee (1928), Carson McCullers (1917), John Dickson Carr (1906), Elizabeth Bishop (1911), Ben Shapiro (1984), and Jeffery Deaver (1950). After him are Dean Koontz (1945), Langston Hughes (1902), Clarissa Pinkola Estés (1945), Natalie Clifford Barney (1876), Philip José Farmer (1918), and Alice Walker (1944).

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