The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . /ILLIAM CULLEN BRVAN SC/EiVCE, LITERATURE, AXD ART. 385. LONGFELLOW. setts in 1794, was the first American who became wide-ly known as a poet. Though he lived to be very old,his most famous poem, Thanatopsis, was written whenhe was not yet nineteen years of age, and hisalmost equally famous Lines to a Water- >*^fowl before he was twenty. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the mostpopular and the most widely celebrated ofour poets, was born in Portland, ^Lune, in1807. Of his shorter pieces, Excelsiorand • The Psalm of
The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . /ILLIAM CULLEN BRVAN SC/EiVCE, LITERATURE, AXD ART. 385. LONGFELLOW. setts in 1794, was the first American who became wide-ly known as a poet. Though he lived to be very old,his most famous poem, Thanatopsis, was written whenhe was not yet nineteen years of age, and hisalmost equally famous Lines to a Water- >*^fowl before he was twenty. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the mostpopular and the most widely celebrated ofour poets, was born in Portland, ^Lune, in1807. Of his shorter pieces, Excelsiorand • The Psalm of Life are best Hiawatha is an epic poem of In-dian life, and his Evangeline is a nar-rative poem founded on the story of theexpulsion of the Acadians. John Greenleaf Whittier, sometimes called the Quaker poet, was born in Massachusetts, in the whuticsame year with Longfellow (1807). Many of his poemsdescribe simple, rural life. Others relate to slavery andthe civil war. One of the most charming is Snow-Bound, a description of winter scenes in New Eng-land, written in 1866. Oliver Wendell Holmes was born in is fam
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