{"id":18702,"date":"2023-05-22T09:21:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T13:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=18702"},"modified":"2023-06-06T14:10:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T18:10:12","slug":"henry-wadsworth-longfellow-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/henry-wadsworth-longfellow-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American, 1807-1882)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most influential American poets of the nineteenth century, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine to a well-established family and rose to national literary prominence by the 1850s. He was a traveler, linguist, and romantic deeply ingrained in the American culture and history that fueled his imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Longfellow graduated in 1825 from Bowdoin College and was a professor at Harvard University. He produced several pieces of epic poetry centered on extraordinary deeds and occurrences. With the release of <em>Evangeline<\/em> (1847), a sentimental narrative poem about the British driving out of the French from Acadia in Canada from 1755 to1764, he became well-known across the country. By the time of his death, he had achieved global fame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"900\" data-id=\"18700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.19-e1684761226113-720x900.webp\" alt=\"John Flanagan, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Plaquette, 1911, bronze, cast hollow by unknown foundry, 7 7\/16 x 5 3\/4 in, Bates College Museum of Art, gift of John and Janet Marqusee, 1996.5.19\n\" class=\"wp-image-18700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.19-e1684761226113-720x900.webp 720w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.19-e1684761226113-240x300.webp 240w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.19-e1684761226113-768x961.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.19-e1684761226113-1228x1536.webp 1228w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.19-e1684761226113-502x628.jpg 502w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.19-e1684761226113-160x200.webp 160w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.19-e1684761226113.webp 1304w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">John Flanagan, <em>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Plaquette<\/em>, 1911, bronze, cast hollow by unknown foundry, 7 7\/16 x 5 3\/4 in, Bates College Museum of Art, gift of John and Janet Marqusee, 1996.5.19 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American, 1807-1882) One of the most influential American poets&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18702","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19282,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18702\/revisions\/19282"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}