Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works— Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha —as well as his shorter lyrics and less familiar narrative poems. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Aftermath The Arsenal At Springfield The Children's Hour The Cross Of Snow The Day Is Done Evangeline Finale: Saint John The Fire Of Driftwood; Devereux Farm, Near Marblehead Giles Corey Of The Salem Farms Giles Corey Of The Salem Farms: Prologue Hawthorne I. Miles Standish Ii. Love And Friendship Iii. The Lover's Errand Iv. John Alden Ix. The Wedding-day The Jewish Cemetery At Newport John Endicott The Landlord's Tale Mezzo Cammin Morituri Salutamus My Lost Youth Nature; Sonnet The Occultation Of Orion The Poet's Tale A Psalm Of Life The Ropewalk Sailing Of The Mayflower Seaweed The Skeleton In Armor The Slave Singing At Midnight Snowflakes The Song Of Hiawatha: Hiawatha's Childhood The Song Of Hiawatha: Hiawatha's Fasting The Theologian's Tale Vi. Priscilla Vii. The March Of Miles Standish Viii. The Spinning-wheel The Village Blacksmith The Warning The Wreck Of The Hesperus -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was the most popular and admired American poet of the nineteenth century. Born in Portland, Maine, and educated at Bowdoin College, Longfellow’s ambition was always to become a writer; but until mid-life his first profession was the teaching rather than the production of literature, at his alma mater (1829-35) and then at Harvard (1836-54). His teaching career was punctuated by two extended study-tours of Europe, during which Longfellow made himself fluent in all the major Romance and Germanic languages. Thanks to a fortunate marriage and the growing popularity of his work, from his mid-thirties onwards Longfellow, ensconced in a comfortable Cambridge mansion, was able to devote an increasingly large fraction of his energies to the long narrative historical and mythic poems that made him a household word, especially Evangeline (1847), The Song of Hiawatha (1855), The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858), and Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863, 1872, 1873). Versatile as well as prolific, Longfellow also won fame as a writer of short ballads and lyrics, and experimented in the essay, the short story, the novel, and the verse drama. Taken as a whole, Longfellow’s writings show a breadth of literary learning, an understanding of western languages and cultures, unmatched by any American writer of his time.