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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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(1807 - 1882)

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Born in Portland, Massachusetts, Longfellow studied at Bowdoin College and taught at Bowdoin and Harvard College. He was the most successful American poet of his day and wrote The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and The Village Blacksmith as well as a verse translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy.



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Best in Children’s Books Volume 11 (1958)

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An anthology of stories and poems. Many of the illustrations are new to this collection.

Author(s): Louisa May Alcott
Hans Christian Andersen
Marjorie Flack
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Et al
Illustrator(s): Don Freeman
Feodor Rojankovsky
Et al

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Best in Children’s Books Volume 7 (1958)

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A collection of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Emma L. Brock
Brothers Grimm
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Et al
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Feodor Rojankovsky
Richard Scarry
Edward Shenton
Et al

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The Children’s Longfellow (1908)

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This is a much larger selection of Longfellow’s work Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s): Frank Schoonover
N. C. Wyeth
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The Courtship of Miles Standish (1920)

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Longfellow’s account of the rivalry of Miles Standish and John Alden for the hand of the fair Priscilla. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Evangeline (1897)

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Longfellow’s poem deals with a French Canadian love story.

Author(s): Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s): Violet Oakley
Jessie Willcox Smith

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Hiawatha (1983)

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By the shores of Gitchy-Gumee,
By the shining big sea water …

Author(s): Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s): Susan Jeffers

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The Hiawatha Primer (1898)

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An elementary school reader. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Florence Holbrook
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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The Song of Hiawatha (1911)

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Longfellow’s epic poem is based on American Indian legends. It is set in the Pictured Rock region along the south shore of Lake Superior. Read online at Archive.org. Or at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s): Maxfield Parrish
Frederic Remington
N. C. Wyeth

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