Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Longfellow appealed to his readers\u00e2\u0080\u0099 patriotic pride by mythologizing episodes from the pre-Revolutionary era of American history. Epic works such as The Song of Hiawatha (1855), The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858), and Paul Revere\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Ride (1861) became instant best-sellers. Decades after their publication, the poems were still memorized and recited by American schoolchildren and adults."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Longfellow\u00e2\u0080\u0099s poems gained wider recognition as cultural exports and were translated into eighteen different languages by the turn of the century. The poet received honorary degrees from Oxford and Cambridge in the late 1860s and is the only non-Briton to be honored in the Poet\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Corner of Westminster Abbey in London. This lithograph, made in England by the French artist Alphonse Legros, attests to Longfellow\u00e2\u0080\u0099s status as a venerated international celebrity."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Nacido en Portland, Maine"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "En el siglo XIX, cuando la poes\u00c3\u00ada era un g\u00c3\u00a9nero literario muy popular, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow alcanz\u00c3\u00b3 una fama sin igual como primer poeta profesional en Estados Unidos. Longfellow apelaba al orgullo patrio de sus lectores mitificando episodios anteriores a la \u00c3\u00a9poca revolucionaria. Obras \u00c3\u00a9picas como El canto de Hiawatha (1855), El cortejo de Miles Standish (1858) y La cabalgata de Paul Revere (1861) fueron \u00c3\u00a9xitos de venta inmediatos. D\u00c3\u00a9cadas despu\u00c3\u00a9s de publicarse, a\u00c3\u00ban eran memorizadas y recitadas por colegiales y adultos."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Los poemas de Longfellow se divulgaron a\u00c3\u00ban m\u00c3\u00a1s como bienes de exportaci\u00c3\u00b3n cultural, y para fines de siglo se hab\u00c3\u00adan traducido a 18 idiomas. El autor recibi\u00c3\u00b3 diplomas honor\u00c3\u00adficos de Oxford y Cambridge a fines de la d\u00c3\u00a9cada de 1860 y es el \u00c3\u00banico poeta no brit\u00c3\u00a1nico honrado en el \u00e2\u0080\u009crinc\u00c3\u00b3n de los poetas\u00e2\u0080\u009d de la abad\u00c3\u00ada de Westminster en Londres. 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