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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow生平
其父親是個律師，母親尤愛誦讀詩歌。他們養育了四男四女，亨利排行第二，其性格秉承父母的氣質。
在家庭氣氛熏陶下，亨利自小喜愛詩歌和語言，後來入緬因州鮑登學院攻讀語言和文學（納撒尼爾·霍桑是其同班同學），並兩度赴歐學習法、義、德、丹麥、瑞典和荷蘭等語言，二十八歲即任哈佛大學現代語言教授。
世界上第一首譯為中文的英語詩是朗費羅的《人生頌》。時任大清國總理各國事務衙門全權大臣的董恂曾將《人生頌》書於扇面，並轉交給遠在波士頓的朗費羅，此扇現存於朗費羅故居。
代表作
- 《夜吟》
- 《奴役篇》
- 《伊凡吉林》
- 《海華沙之歌》
- 《基督》
- 《路畔旅捨故事》
外部鏈接
- 古騰堡計劃中Henry Wadsworth Longfellow的作品 - Plain text and HTML
- Works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at Internet Archive - Scanned books, many illustrated and original editions.
- Audio - Hear the Village Blacksmith
- Maine Historical Society Searchable poem text database, biographical data, lesson plans.
- Longfellow as a translator Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the Fireside Poets from New England.
Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, which was then still part of Massachusetts. He studied at Bowdoin College and became a professor at Bowdoin and later at Harvard College after spending time in Europe. His first major poetry collections were Voices of the Night (1839) and Ballads and Other Poems (1841). He retired from teaching in 1854 to focus on his writing, and he lived the remainder of his life in the Revolutionary War headquarters of George Washington in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His first wife Mary Potter died in 1835 after a miscarriage. His second wife Frances Appleton died in 1861 after sustaining burns when her dress caught fire. After her death, Longfellow had difficulty writing poetry for a time and focused on translating works from foreign languages. He died in 1882.
Longfellow wrote many lyric poems known for their musicality and often presenting stories of mythology and legend. He became the most popular American poet of his day and had success overseas. He has been criticized by some, however, for imitating European styles and writing specifically for the masses.