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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
     
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
(1807-82) a popular US poet who wrote long poems about US legends (=old and popular stories of brave people, great events or adventures etc). His most famous poems are The Song of Hiawatha, The Courtship of Miles Standish, Paul Revere's Ride, and The Wreck of the Hesperus
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