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U.S. poet remembered for long narrative poems like Paul Revere's Ride and The Song of Hiawatha (1807-1882)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow famously said, "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

— HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, "The Courtship of Miles Standish," 1858.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
Are you—""Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was my grandfather's great-grandfather.
David Baldacci -- Wish You Well
A German translation of Lonnrot's Kalevala came under the eyes of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who thereupon both conceived the plan and chose the meter of his Song of Hiawatha.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
I was accepted socially with all the warm cordiality that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow would have shown a drunken Negress dancing the can can at high noon on Brattle Street.
Eugene O'Neill -- The Iceman Cometh
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
David Baldacci -- Wish You Well
I read Evangeline, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; I read Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese.
Margaret Atwood -- The Blind Assassin
It must be named after the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A banner with a strange device, a knight sacrificing all earthly concerns to scale the heights.
Margaret Atwood -- The Blind Assassin
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow," said Lou without much enthusiasm.
David Baldacci -- Wish You Well

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