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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Longfellow

Now a musician, Boucher celebrates his French-Canadian roots, even turning the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem about the Acadian expulsion, Evangeline, into a song.

From BBC ● May 1, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

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 ● Dec. 14, 2025

“And so through the night went his cry of alarm / To every Middlesex village and farm,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow famously wrote, declaring Revere’s warning “a word that shall echo forevermore!”

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2025

The Wreck of the Hesperus’ is by a poet called Longfellow, and it is a very dramatic tale.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood