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"It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American influential poet, linguist, and educator. He was born on February 27, 1807 in Portland, Maine; but lived most of his life in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he died on March 24, 1882.

His family came to America in 1676 from Yorkshire, England. His father Stephen Longfellow was Portland advocate and congressman, while his grandfather Peleg Wadsworth was a
general in the American Revolution.

Henry Wadsworth was educated at Portland Academy and Bowdoin College where he offered a professorship after graduation in 1825. He travelled to Europe 1826-1829 and became the first professor of modern languages at Bowdoin when he returned.

Henry Wadsworth wrote some books in French, Spanish and Italian. He offered the Smith Professorship of Spanish and French at Harvard in 1834 after having him travelled to Europe to perfect his German language. He then began publishing his poetry "Voices of the Night" in 1839 and "Ballads and Other Poems" including his famous poem "The Village Blacksmith" in 1841. He
offered the Doctorate of Laws from Harvard in 1859.

Henry Wadsworth's works include complete poetical works and other writing genres, both of which includes - The Song of Hiawatha, Hiawatha, Paul Revere's Ride, The Rainy Day, Six Sonnets on Dante's Divine Comedy, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.