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Longfellow

[ lawng-fel-oh, long- ]

/ ˈlɔŋˌfɛl oʊ, ˈlɒŋ- /

noun

Henry Wadsworth

[wodz-werth] /ˈwɒdz wərθ/,1807–82, U.S. poet.

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The story of how he inadvertently made a Champagne-style wine that even wowed Europe and inspired a poem by Longfellow.

America’s First Great Wine…Made in 1842 |Jordan Salcito |November 23, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Longfellow, author of the poem “The Song of Hiawatha,” about an Indian hero, likely met Isaac Pharaoh there.

The House that Slavery Built |Jane Ciabattari |July 16, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
I have seen tougher fights at the Longfellow Middle School PTA.

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He is to America what Paul Revere was to the Brits—without the horsemanship, the lanterns, and the Longfellow.

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Like Longfellow, he lived in his study and his study had only eastern windows.

A History of American Literature Since 1870 |Fred Lewis Pattee
It was here that the rascal lived who drank wine out of a boot, immortalized by Longfellow.

The Art of Entertaining |M. E. W. Sherwood
If the celebrated query in Longfellow's Hyperion, "What is time?"

Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 |George Saintsbury
He differed from Longfellow in often speaking of his contemporaries.

Literary Friends And Acquaintances |William Dean Howells
He had spent the afternoon in Westminster Abbey, happening, among other things, upon Longfellow's bust.

My Life |Josiah Flynt

British Dictionary definitions for longfellow

Longfellow

/ (ˈlɒŋˌfɛləʊ) /

noun

Henry Wadsworth. 1807–82, US poet, noted particularly for his long narrative poems Evangeline (1847) and The Song of Hiawatha (1855)