Keywords: Fanny A Longfellow
Item 15918
F.A. Longfellow and sons, ca. 1849
Contributed by: NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site Date: circa 1849 Location: Boston Media: Daguerreotype
Item 15479
Frances Elizabeth Appleton Longfellow, 1834
Contributed by: NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site Date: 1834 Location: Cambridge Media: Oil on panel
Exhibit
Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.
Exhibit
Drawing Together: Art of the Longfellows
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is best know as a poet, but he also was accomplished in drawing and music. He shared his love of drawing with most of his siblings. They all shared the frequent activity of drawing and painting with their children. The extended family included many professional as well as amateur artists, and several architects.
Site Page
NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters Historic Site
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Lesson Plan
Longfellow Studies: "The Poet's Tale - The Birds of Killingworth"
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: English Language Arts, Science & Engineering, Social Studies
This poem is one of the numerous tales in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Tales of the Wayside Inn. The collection was published in three parts between 1863 and 1873. This series of long narrative poems were written by Longfellow during the most difficult personal time of his life. While mourning the tragic death of his second wife (Fanny Appleton Longfellow) he produced this ambitious undertaking. During this same period he translated Dante's Inferno from Italian to English. "The Poet's Tale" is a humorous poem with a strong environmental message which reflects Longfellow's Unitarian outlook on life.
