Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Boston, MA
N 42° 20.974 W 071° 04.644
Short Description:
A marble bust of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is located in the Bates Reading Room of the McKim Building of the Boston Public Library at 700 Boylston St., Boston, MA.
Long Description:
On the second floor of the Boston Public Library is the hugh Bates reading Room. There you will find busts of many famous persons.
The life size, white marble bust of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow rests on a black marble 5' high pedestal. He is depicted from mid-chest up, wrapped in a robe with wide labels. A sign on the wall next to the sculpture is inscribed:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow c.1879
Samuel James Kitson
American, 1848-1906
Marble
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PURCHASED BY BOSTON CITY COUNCIL, 1912
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807 in Portland, ME then a part of Massachusetts. He graduated Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, ME and became a professor at Bowdoin then Harvard Colleges. He is most famous for is lyric poetry although he also wrote several novels. His most famous poems include:
The Village Blacksmith (1840)
Poems on Slavery (1842)
The Wreck of the Hesperus (1842)
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)
The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems (1858)
The Children's Hour (1860)
Paul Revere's Ride (1860)
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863)
The Masque of Pandora and Other Poems (1875)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, along with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, and James Russell Lowell were members of the Fireside Poets. A group of American poets whose works rivaled those of English poets.
Longfellow died on March 24, 1882 in Cambridge, MA. In 1884, he was the first and only American poet to have his bust placed in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey, London.
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