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02/27/1807 He was born February 27, 1807, in Portland, the son of Stephen Longfellow and Zilpah Wadsworth Longfellow 1826 Longfellow set out for Europe to turn himself into a scholar and a linguist. 1829 He travelled in Spain, Italy, France, Germany, and England, and then finaly returned to America 1831 He married Mary Storer Potter, whom he had known as a schoolmate. 1834 He was appointed to a professorship at Harvard and once more set out for Europe by way of preparation 1835 His wife, Mary, died while Rotterdam and Longfellow came alone to Cambridge and the new professorship. 1841 Ballads and Other Poems 1842 Seven years after he came to Cambridge, Longfellow married Frances Appleton, daughter of Nathan Appleton, and Craigie House was given to the Longfellows as a wedding gift. 1844 Poems on Slavery 1847 Evangeline 1854 he resigned from Harvard and gave himself entirely to the task of his own poetic writing. 1855 The Song of Hiawatha 1858 The Courtship of Miles Standish 1861 His second wife, Fanny ,died of burns from a terrible accident 1863 Tales of a Wayside Inn 1867 his translation of Dante`s Divine Comedy 1878 Keramos 03/24/1882 He died on March 24, 1882. |
