Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the most popular poet in the English-speaking world in the nineteenth century, writing narrative verse — Paul Revere's Ride, Evangeline, Hiawatha — that ordinary readers memorised. He also produced the first American translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, working through it in the years after his wife died in a fire. Modernist critics buried his reputation for most of the twentieth century. The lines about persistence and grief have outlived the fashion.