Making Meaning with Mainers

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1807 – 1882

These lines are from Longfellow’s poem
Holidays ~ Here is the full poem (3)


Background Information and Connection to Maine  (4)

 

Click here to read Longfellow’s famous poem Paul Revere’s Ride (5)

Virtual Visit: Click here to tour Longfellow’s boyhood home in Portland, Maine (6)

Longfellow’s boyhood home on Congress Street in Portland (7)

Virtual Visit: Click here for a video tour of Longfellow’s home in Portland, Maine (8)

Longfellow in 1850 at age 43 (9)

13 Amazing Facts about Longfellow You Probably Didn’t Know (10)

Click here to learn more about the history of Longfellow’s home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which was also Washington’s Headquarters during the Revolutionary War (11)

Virtual Visit: Click here to tour Craigie House in Cambridge, Massachusetts where Longfellow lived for more than 45 years and wrote his famous poems (12)

Visual Text: The Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his study, then and now (13)


Longfellow’s Works

Click here to read “The 10 Greatest Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow” ~ According to The Society of Classical Poets (14)

 

Longfellow Sampler ~ CLICK HERE for a searchable database of all of Longfellow’s works to find the poems and writings that are most interesting or meaningful to you (15)

 

Click here to read the famous prologue to Longfellow’s epic poem Evangeline (16)

Published in 1847, Evangeline tells the tale of a girl from Acadie (now Nova Scotia) searching for her lost love Gabriel after the Great Expulsion in 1755, when 11,500 Acadians were forcibly removed from their homes by the British and deported on ships. Click here if you’d like to read more of the poem. (17)

 

Click here to read the love story of Longfellow and Fanny Appleton (18)

Longfellow and the tragic death of his wife Fanny (19)

Click here to read Longfellow’s poem Cross of Snow written 18 years after his wife’s tragic death (20)

Listen to a dramatic reading of the poem Cross of Snow (21)

Click here to read the inscription on Longfellow’s bust at Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey (22)

Click to visit Longfellow’s resting place at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts (23)

Longfellow’s obituary appearing in the New York Times on March 25, 1882 (24)

 
Photo Credits and Sources from top to bottom of page:

 

1. Portrait of Longfellow: http://victorian-era.org/the-rainy-day-by-henry-wadsworth-longfellow.html
2. https://quotefancy.com/quote/826709/Henry-Wadsworth-Longfellow-The-holiest-of-holidays-are-those-kept-by-ourselves-in-silence
3. https://www.hwlongfellow.org/poems_poem.php?pid=226
4. Allaback, Steven. “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.” The American Renaissance in New England, edited by Joel Myerson, Gale, 1978. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 1. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1200001580/LitRC?u=brun84057&sid=bookmark-LitRC&xid=a9dcc900. Accessed 21 Mar. 2022.
5. https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/midnight-ride-of-paul-revere-a-singable-picture-book/
6. https://daydreamunderthestars.com/2019/05/26/the-wadsworth-longfellow-house/
7. http://images.oakville.halinet.on.ca/67501/data
8. https://www.c-span.org/video/?435272-1/wadsworth-longfellow-house#
9. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/268330
10. https://mainehistory.wordpress.com/2015/02/23/13-amazing-facts-about-henry-wadsworth-longfellow-you-probably-didnt-know/
11. https://www2.finebooksmagazine.com/issue/1501/longfellow-1.phtml
12. https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery.htm?pg=3539810&id=961BB3C5-1DD8-B71B-0B0EF77F188B2C57
13. https://www2.finebooksmagazine.com/issue/1501/longfellow-1.phtml
14. https://classicalpoets.org/2018/01/02/10-greatest-poems-by-henry-wadsworth-longfellow/
15. https://www.hwlongfellow.org/poems_front.php
16. http://walfamily.net/wordpress/blog/2012/08/15/prologue-from-evangeline/
17. https://poets.org/poem/evangeline-tale-acadie
18. https://www.nps.gov/articles/fanny-henry-a-romance.htm
19. https://mountauburn.org/henry-wadsworth-longfellow-cross-of-snow/
20. https://allpoetry.com/The-Cross-of-Snow
21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDRfRBsH6N4
22. http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/brock/51.html
23. https://mountauburn.org/henry-wadsworth-longfellow-1807-1882-2/
24. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5607609/obit-henry-wadsworth-longfellow-desc/
 
 
 
 
 
 

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