The surgeon informed Longfellow that Charley’s wound “was very serious” and that “paralysis might ensue.” Three surgeons gave ...

LONG BEACH >> Poet. Professor. Parent. These are a few of the roles that defined the life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the namesake of Longfellow Elementary School in Bixby Knolls. Born in Portland, ...

When I was growing up, there were four junior high schools in my hometown: Hawthorne, Whittier, Irving and Longfellow. They were all built in the 1920s and named in honor of what were then America’s ...

(Parts of this column were first published as an editorial in the York Daily Record/Sunday News at Christmas in 2014) American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote to a friend in 1863: “I have been ...

On Christmas day, 1863, the American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow sat at his desk in his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts ...

PORTLAND, Maine — Longfellow’s epic poem, “The Song of Hiawatha,” was written 152 years ago, but Michael Maglaras thinks the story can be as appealing to modern-day audiences as “Superman” or “Star ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is the perfect poet for our current moment. A master at what’s now called social networking, he commanded, at the height of his fame, a virtual empire of readers at home and ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. On this day in 1775, patriots in Lexington and Concord fought the first ...

On Christmas day 1863, as his son recovered from his wounds, Henry penned the poem "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day," with ...

YOUTH never forgets the earliest vision of the gracious presence which glorified its opening day. The impression of it deepens with years, and is at no time so vivid as in late life, when new ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In the nineteenth century, when poetry was a highly popular literary genre, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow rose to ...