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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1807 - 1882

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England. Longfellow was born in Portland, District of Maine, Massachusetts (now Portland, Maine). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is the 1,085th most popular writer (up from 1,569th in 2019), the 1,544th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,929th in 2019) and the 122nd most popular American Writer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is most famous for his poetry and his translations of Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" into English.

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Among writers, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ranks 1,085 out of 7,302. Before him are Edith Wharton, Pierre Louÿs, Ibn Sirin, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Dubravka Ugrešić, and Yakub Kolas. After him are Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Harriet Jacobs, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Ernst Barlach, James Thomson, and Carlos Ruiz Zafón.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1807, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ranks 6. Before him are Giuseppe Garibaldi, Robert E. Lee, Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Jules Grévy, and Louis Agassiz. After him are Lajos Batthyány, Joseph Petzval, Anthony Mary Claret, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, Bezmiâlem Sultan, and Harriet Taylor Mill. Among people deceased in 1882, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ranks 19. Before him are Joseph Liouville, John Nelson Darby, William Stanley Jevons, Vasily Perov, Thomas Hill Green, and Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. After him are Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Sergey Nechayev, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Richard Henry Dana Jr., and Mary Todd Lincoln.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ranks 1,544 out of 20,380. Before him are Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861), Cesar Chavez (1927), Edith Wharton (1862), Gary Gilmore (1940), Henry Way Kendall (1926), and Dennis Rader (1945). After him are Shia LaBeouf (1986), Harriet Jacobs (1813), Joel Schumacher (1939), Anjelica Huston (1951), Dr. Dre (1965), and Vincente Minnelli (1903).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ranks 122. Before him are Eleanor H. Porter (1868), Mary Higgins Clark (1927), Clifford D. Simak (1904), William Gibson (1948), Thomas Pynchon (1937), and Edith Wharton (1862). After him are Harriet Jacobs (1813), Tess Gerritsen (1953), Roger Zelazny (1937), Jeff Lindsay (1952), John Cheever (1912), and Will Durant (1885).

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