Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

27 February 1807—24 March 1882

Featured Hymns:

Published Original Works:

Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea, 2 vols. (1835): Vol. 1 | Vol. 2
Hyperion: A Romance, 2 vols. (1839): Vol. 1 | Vol. 2
Voices of the Night (1839): Archive.org
Ballads and Other Poems (1841): Archive.org
Poems on Slavery (1842): Archive.org
The Spanish Student (1843): PDF
The Waif [Editor] (1845): Archive.org
The Belfry of Bruges (1846): Archive.org
The Estray [Editor] (1847): PDF
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847): Archive.org
Kavanagh: A Tale (1849): Archive.org
The Seaside and the Fireside (1850): Archive.org
The Golden Legend (1851): Archive.org
The Song of Hiawatha (1855): Archive.org
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858): Archive.org
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863): Archive.org
Household Poems (1865): Archive.org
Flower-de-Luce (1867): Archive.org
The New England Tragedies (1868): Archive.org
The Divine Tragedy (1871): Archive.org
Christus: A Mystery (1872): Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Three Books of Song (1872): Archive.org
Aftermath (1874): Archive.org
The Masque of Pandora (1875): Archive.org
Poems of Places [Editor], 31 vols. (1876–1879): HathiTrust
Kéramos and Other Poems (1878): Archive.org
Ultima Thule (1880): Archive.org
In the Harbor (1882): Archive.org
Michael Angelo (1883): Archive.org

Editions:

The Poetical Works, Riverside Edition, 6 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1886): HathiTrust

Manuscripts:

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University:
https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/24/resources/1668

Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, Archives:
https://www.nps.gov/long/learn/historyculture/archives.htm

Biographies:

Samuel Longfellow, Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 3 vols. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1891): Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 | Vol. 3

George Rice Carpenter, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1901): Archive.org

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1902): Archive.org

Lawrance Thompson, Young Longfellow, 1807–1843 (1938).

Edward Wagenknecht, Longfellow: A Full-Length Portrait (1955).

Edward Wagenknecht, Mrs. Longfellow: Selected Letters and Journals of Fanny Appleton Longfellow (1956).

Andrew Hilen, The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 6 vols. (1966–1982).

Charles Calhoun, Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life (Beacon Press, 2004).

Related Resources:

Frederick M. Bird, “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,” A Dictionary of Hymnology (London: J. Murray, 1892), p. 685: Google Books

Edward Wagenknecht, “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,” American National Biography (2 Dec. 1999):
https://doi.org/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1601015

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Maine Historical Society:
https://www.hwlongfellow.org/

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hymnary.org:
https://hymnary.org/person/Longfellow_HW

J.R. Watson, “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,” Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology:
http://www.hymnology.co.uk/h/henry-wadsworth-longfellow