Longfellow

American  

[lawng-fel-oh, long-] / ˈlɔŋˌfɛl oʊ, ˈlɒŋ- /

noun

1. Henry Wadsworth 1807–82, U.S. poet.

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Longfellow British  

/ ˈlɒŋˌfɛləʊ /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

The Atlantic magazine introduced many now-classic works by writers including Longfellow, Whitman and Frost.

From The Wall Street Journal

Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow appears to whisper this crass confession to his daughter in a popular TikTok post from Massachusetts’ Worcester Art Museum titled, “what the paintings talk about when the Museum is closed.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The cantata is based on a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that tells the tale of an Ojibwe warrior in what is now Michigan.

From The Wall Street Journal

Videos of the bubbles, visible between 33rd Street and Longfellow Avenue, spread on social media, with commenters offering a variety of wild and not-so-wild theories.

From Los Angeles Times

She could multiply fractions, turn a cartwheel, and recite entire stanzas of “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” a marvelous poem about a shipwreck by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

From Literature