Inspirational Quotes and Sayings ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Inspirational Quotes and Sayings ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 March 24, 1882) was a prominent U.S. poet and educator. Longfellow was a professor of modern languages at Bowdoin. Afterwards he took up the professorship at Harvard College. However, in 1854 he  retired from teaching in order to devote full time to his writing.  Longfellow  was one of the five Fireside Poets and  the  first American to translate  The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. His best known  poetry  works  include  Evangeline,  Paul Reveres Ride,  The Song of Hiawatha,  The Village Blacksmith,  The Wreck of the Hesperus.