Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is the author of "Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie." Evangeline is a mythical tale about two Acadian lovers, Evangeline and Gabriel, who get separated on the trip to Louisiana, and find each other only many years later as Gabriel is dying. Evangeline was first published in 1847.

Born in 1807, Longfellow is probably America's most loved poet.

Longfellow also wrote "The Song of Hiawatha" and many other poems and novels. Longfellow died in 1882.

To learn more about Longfellow, you might want to visit the web site: http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/longfellow.html.

The Longfellow house outside of Boston.

Longfellow biography: http://www.etsu.edu/english/muse/longbio.html