Today we’ll take a look today at the life of master lyric poet – and Harvard professor – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Listen my children and you shall hear/as we speak about his painfully glorious career…
Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807 in a place that’s now Maine but back then was Massachusetts, and spent his childhood learning Latin and doing very well in school. His first poem was published when he was 13, and by the time he graduated Bowdoin College he had published 40 poems and had cultivated his literary talent.
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