Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Evangeline

Narrative poem depicting Acadian lovers separated by colonial displacement

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American poet who was the most popular poet in the nineteenth-century United States. Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha, and Paul Revere's Ride are beloved narrative poems that shaped American mythology.

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