Series: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Authors of the United States

This series examines Longfellow's personal and professional relationships with other preeminent authors of the United States.

• Article 1: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne

  

  Though Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne graduated together as members of Bowdoin College’s class of 1825, the friendship between the two men truly started in 1837. They would remain friends and literary colleagues the rest of their lives. Read more

• Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site

  Article 2: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Margaret Fuller

  

  A look at the antagonistic and fraught literary relationship of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Margaret Fuller. Read more

• Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site

  Article 3: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Ralph Waldo Emerson

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow were contemporaries who shared connections to Harvard and rising popularity as major literary figures in New England. Read more