Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet, Educator, Linguist

"Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad. "

Longfellow was born and raised in Portland, Maine. He attended Bowdoin college.

He spent a long time over seas and in the end settled in Cambridge.

Met Hawthorne at Bowdoin, and the two became life long friends.

Taught at both Harvard and Bowdoin.

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