There was a little girl
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Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807–1882
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Victorian
Subjects Living, Youth, Infancy
Poetic Terms Epigram
Biography
By far the most widely known and best-loved American poet of his time, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow achieved a level of national and international prominence possibly unequaled in the literary history of the United States. Poems such as "Paul Revere's Ride," Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie (1847), and "A Psalm of Life" became mainstays of national culture, long remembered by generations of readers who studied them in school. . . .
Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Living, Youth, Infancy
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Victorian
Poetic Terms Epigram
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