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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807 - 1882)
Born in Portland, Massachusetts, Longfellow studied at Bowdoin College and taught at Bowdoin and Harvard College. He was the most successful American poet of his day and wrote The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and The Village Blacksmith as well as a verse translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Bibliography
American Backgrounds (1958)
An anthology of early American stories for older children.
Best in Children’s Books Volume 11 (1958)
An anthology of stories and poems. Many of the illustrations are new to this collection.
Best in Children’s Books Volume 28 (1959)
A compendium of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
Best in Children’s Books Volume 7 (1958)
A collection of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
Read online at archive.org.
The Children’s Hour Volume 15 (1953)
A collection of short biographies of famous men and women.
Read online at archive.org.
The Children’s Longfellow (1908)
This is a much larger selection of Longfellow’s work Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
N. C. Wyeth
Et al
The Children’s Own Longfellow (1908)
This version contains only eight poems. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
N. C. Wyeth
Et al
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 6 (1962)
Through the year in poetry, prose, history and fiction centered on the holidays of America.
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1920)
Longfellow’s account of the rivalry of Miles Standish and John Alden for the hand of the fair Priscilla. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Evangeline (1897)
Longfellow’s poem deals with a French Canadian love story.
Author(s):
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s):
Violet Oakley
Jessie Willcox Smith
Hiawatha (1983)
By the shores of Gitchy-Gumee,
By the shining big sea water …
Author(s):
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s):
Susan Jeffers
The Hiawatha Primer (1898)
An elementary school reader. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Florence Holbrook
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
The Song of Hiawatha (1911)
Longfellow’s epic poem is based on American Indian legends. It is set in the Pictured Rock region along the south shore of Lake Superior. Read online at Archive.org. Or at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s):
Maxfield Parrish
Frederic Remington
N. C. Wyeth
Stories of Early America (1958)
Stories and poems about early American history for younger children.
Read online at archive.org.