Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882). American poet. Longfellow is regarded by many as the most popular American poet of the nineteenth century and is credited with bringing European cultural traditions to an American audience. While Longfellow is best known as a poet, he also worked as a translator and as a professor of modern languages at both Bowdoin College (his alma mater) and Harvard. His most well known poems include: The Song of Hiawatha, Evangeline, and Paul Revere’s Ride. After his death he became the first American honored in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey. Longfellow maintained a long friendship with his publisher, James T. Fields, and Fields’ wife Annie Adams Fields, who became Cather’s friend. In “148 Charles Street” (1936), Cather recalled that in her “father’s bookcase” during her childhood “there were little volumes of Longfellow” published by Ticknor and Fields, and quotations from Longfellow’s poetry appear in several of her novels.