When was longfellow born

When he was five, his parents sent him to the Portland Academy, a private institution where his older brother, Stephen, was also enrolled. As was the custom for the time, the two brothers focused most of their studies on languages and literature.

Always a writer at heart, when Henry wasn't in school he and his childhood friend, William Browne, planned elaborate writing projects. Life was not all schoolwork though. His brother Samuel wrote, "In truth he was a very lively and merry boy, though of refined and quiet tastes. He did not like the 'rough and tumble' to which some of his schoolmates were given.

But he joined in the ball games, kite-flying, swimming in summer; snowballing, coasting, and skating in winter. A depiction of the battle between the U. Longfellow was very young when the War of devastated Portland's economy, but the war affected him in ways both immediate and long lasting. With the aid of opium and his friends and family who were with him, he endured the pain for several days before succumbing on March 24, Longfellow married Mary Storer Potter, also from a distinguished family.

Before he began at Harvard, they traveled to northern Europe. While in Germany, Mary died following a miscarriage, in Devastated, Longfellow returned to the United States seeking solace. He turned to his writing, channeling his personal experiences into his work.

He soon published the romance novel Hyperion , where he unabashedly told of his unrequited love for Frances Appleton, whom he had met in Europe soon after his first wife died. After seven years, they married in and would go on to have six children.

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