Happy Birthday to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, an American poet born on this day (February 27) in 180
Happy Birthday to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, an American poet born on this day (February 27) in 1807! Longfellow wrote the epic poem Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie about a fictional woman, Evangeline, who searches for her lost love during the Acadian expulsion to Louisiana. Longfellow was born in modern-day Maine, a state that partially comprised Acadia along with Southeastern Quebec and Canada’s Maritime provinces. Images from: The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Boston : Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879-1883. Call Number: PS2250 .E79 Catalog record: https://bit.ly/2SwbwCD -- source link
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