The idea for the poem came from Longfellow's friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne.

" Even Longfellow's wife Fanny defended his choice, writing to a friend: " It enables greater richness of expression than any other, and it is sonorous like the sea which is ever sounding in Evangeline's ear ".

Frances wrote to her brother Thomas Gold Appleton on August 30, 1843: " We have decided to let Father purchase this grand old mansion ", especially after Longfellow's friend George Washington Greene reminded them " how noble an inheritance this is — where Washington dwelt in every room ".

Nathan Appleton also purchased the land across the street, as Longfellow's mother wrote, " so that their view of the River Charles may not be intercepted ".

Nathan Appleton also purchased the land across the street, as Longfellow's mother wrote, " so that their view of the River Charles may not be intercepted ".

He allowed the oldest of Longfellow's children, Charles, to borrow his yacht for a trip across the Atlantic Ocean in 1866.

`` We no longer have Tom Moore's and Longfellow's ' heart for any fate ', either '', I said.

Some criticized Longfellow's choice of dactylic hexameter, including poet John Greenleaf Whittier, who said the poem would have been better in a prose style similar to Longfellow's Hyperion.

Mr. Baer had an auburn beard, like Longfellow's.

Historian Tudor Jenks wrote that Longfellow's book had " no claim to be considered other than a pleasant little fairystory, and as an entirely misleading sketch of men and matters in old Plymouth.

Bennett was intrigued by the prospect of visiting the site he had read about in Longfellow's poem.

Longfellow's new landlady had earned a reputation for being eccentric and often wore a turban.

In 1878 he brought out, with illustrative woodcuts which he had designed, Raphael and Michaelangelo, dedicated to Henry W. Longfellow, and included Longfellow's previously unpublished translations of the sculptor's sonnets.

The Courtship of Miles Standish ( 1858 ) was a literary counterpoint to Henry Longfellow's earlier Evangeline ( 1847 ), the tragic tale of a woman whose lover disappears in a colonial war.

Minnehaha is a fictional Native American woman documented in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 epic poem The Song of Hiawatha.

That denouement plus Alden's engagement with rivaling Indians who plotted to kill newcomers is told elaborately in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, The Courtship of Miles Standish.

According to tradition, Dumachus was one of a band of robbers who attacked Saint Joseph and the Holy Family on their Flight into Egypt as recorded in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Golden Legend.

There is virtually no connection, apart from name, between Longfellow's hero and the sixteenth-century Iroquois chief Hiawatha who cofounded the Iroquois League.

During their time in the house, the Longfellows hosted famous artists, writers, politicians and other luminaries who were attracted to Longfellow's hospitality and fame.

Cyril has also been portrayed in Ki Longfellow's Flow Down Like Silver, Hypatia of Alexandria.

* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1842 poem " The Quadroon Girl " has a planter, tempted by the slaver's gold, selling his quadroon daughter to a slaver to be his paramour.

He attended the theater and Harvard reunions, read the literary magazines, and wrote a poem at Longfellow's death in 1892.

Evangeline became Longfellow's most famous work in his lifetime and was widely read.

Here is an example in normal stress meter ( the first line of Longfellow's " Evangeline "):

The parish was named Evangeline in honor of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's narrative poem, Evangeline.

St. Martinville is the site of the Evangeline Oak made famous in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem.

The Evangeline Oak, made famous in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, " Evangeline ", stands on the bank of the Bayou Teche.

For example, the name of the City Beautiful urbanist movement emphasizes " beautiful "; similarly, in the line " This is the forest primeval " ( from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline ), " primeval " comes to the fore.

The town " Louisburg " is mentioned in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline.

During this time, Longfellow's literary payment was at its peak ; for Evangeline, he received " a net of twenty-five and sixteenths per cent " royalties, believed to be an all-time high for a poet.

Robbie Robertson of The Band wrote the song " Evangeline ," performed with Emmylou Harris, with Longfellow's character in mind.

* A depiction of Evangeline from Longfellow's poem was incorporated into the Dominion Atlantic Railway logo along with the text ' Land of Evangeline Route '.

An example of dactylic meter is the first line of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem Evangeline, which is in dactylic hexameter:

However, the plot of The Courtship of Miles Standish deliberately varies in emotional tone, unlike the steady tragedy of Longfellow's Evangeline.

Horace Ingersoll told Hawthorne a story of Acadian lovers that later inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1847 poem Evangeline.

His first publication, when a very young man, was a metrical translation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline.

Influenced by promotional themes from Yarmouth steamship companies, the DAR developed an identity as " The Land of Evangeline Route " exploiting interest in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem about the Acadians.

The community was made famous by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem Evangeline and is today home to the Grand-Pré National Historic Site.

Throughout his career he continually revised his compositions: titles were changed with an almost casual regularity ( for instance, the opera Pierrot and Pierrette became The Stranger, the opera-ballet The Wizard became The Enchanter and the dramatic overture for brass band 1914 became Clive of India ), many works were assigned several different opus numbers at different times, he borrowed music from one piece to another and recast works in different forms: for example, The Pit and the Pendulum draws its material from the opera-ballet The Enchanter, Symphony No. 7 ( Al Aaraaf ) is a transcription for string orchestra of a String Sextet, The Masque of the Red Death which was originally another orchestral poem became a ballet, and what was illustrative of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Skeleton in Armour was seemingly also a close depiction of Byron's The Corsair, whilst several different versions of his orchestral variations on Auld Lang Syne exist with a number of the supposed ' musical portraits ' apparently applicable simultaneously to different contemporaries.

He is most famous for alerting Colonial militia of approaching British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, " Paul Revere's Ride.

It was published in 1847 and became Longfellow's most famous work in his lifetime.

Gezelle also was a translator of poetry and prose, most famous now for his translation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha, published in 1886.

For a time, Longfellow's home was one of the most photographed and most recognizable homes in the United States.