Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• And He Still has Clout [Corrected 02/21/07] ; Born in Portland in 1807, Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Was Idolized in His Day. His Influence Remains Pervasive Today.

Bob Greenlaw is teaching his 10-year-old son about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, just as Greenlaw's parents had taught him. Greenlaw, a land surveyor who lives in Portland, knows the history and all the local landmarks related to the great poet's life and has several poems committed to memory.

• Portland Press Herald
• February 21, 2007

• Not Just Any 'Smith' ... A Blacksmith

if you go Blacksmith Days continues from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium. Normal museum admission applies. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow seemed to know the subject well, when he wrote the iconic poem "The Village Blacksmith" in 1841:

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• April 10, 2011

• Uni-Verse0109

UNI-VERSEThe Sound of the SeaBy Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The sea awoke at midnight from its sleep,

• Bangor Daily News
• January 08, 2012

• 204 and He's Still Got Rhythm ; the Longfellow Chorus and Maine Historical Society Host Events to Honor the Celebrated Portland-Born Poet.

While road races are prevalent in Maine, not many start with a poetry recitation. How beautiful it was, that one bright day in the long week of rain," Daniel Noel read from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "Hawthorne.

• Portland Press Herald
• February 28, 2011

• Longfellow's Wife, Fanny, Was Spiritual and Inspiring

It is heart-warming to find a woman who possesses great spiritual as well as physical beauty; a woman who, of her own accord, seeks the promptings of the Spirit and strives to rise upward in all things. Such a remarkable woman was Fanny Appleton Longfellow, wife of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• October 16, 2010

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of His Birth

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a superstar. The great American poet, born in Portland 200 years ago this month, enjoyed international celebrity status, and was so popular that his birthday was celebrated as a national holiday while he was still alive.

• Portland Press Herald
• March 01, 2007

• Oratorio Chorale to Perform 'Songs Form British Isles'

BATH -- The Oratorio Chorale will open its 38th season with "Songs from the British Isles," a program featuring sacred and secular music from 19th and 20th century composers Britten, Elgar, Finzi, Howells and Holst. Poets Robert Herrick, Henry Vaughan, George Lord Byron and the American Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are also represented in the program. These works range from the 17th to the 20th centuries.

• Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
• November 11, 2011

• Inaugural Time in Rhyme From the Mind of a Poet

So there I stood Tuesday in Longfellow Square, staring up with sympathy at the imposing statue of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Why sympathy?

• Portland Press Herald
• January 05, 2011

• Mass. Town Looks to Terrorism As a Source of Budgetary Relief: ; Cities That Face High Risk Get Funds From Homeland Security

GLOUCESTER, Mass. - Gloucester has sent men to the sea in ships - whalers, schooners, dories and more - for nearly four centuries. A seaside memorial here enshrines the names of more than 5,300 mariners who never returned, lost to howling nor'easters and monstrous waves, including the doomed swordfishing crew portrayed in the book and film "The Perfect Storm. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's mournful poem "The Wreck of the Hesperus" and Rudyard Kipling's adventure story "Captains Courageous" are set here. Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper brought their easels to paint local seascapes. T.S. Eliot came crabbing.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• April 26, 2010

• Readers' Best-Loved Christmas Carols Tend Toward the Spiritual

I heard the bells on Christmas DayTheir old, familiar carols play. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• January 20, 2010