The Devil’s Bridge

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Although many of his compositions are classified as romantic verses, Henry tried with several writing styles, such as hexameter and rhyme. His printed verse displays prodigious adaptability, applying anapestic and trochaic styles, free verse, epic odes, ballads and sonnets. Naturally, Henry would cautiously regard the topic of his elegiacal concepts for an extensive time before choosing on the correct metrical style for it. Most of his writings are known for its harmony-like musicality. As he states, “what a writer asks of his reader is not so much to like as to listen”.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a poet and professor whose writings are Paul Revere’s Ride, The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to convert into English language Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, and was among the five Fireside Poets from New England.

Henry was born in Portland, Maine, which was before a part of Massachusetts. He enrolled at Bowdoin College. After staying in Europe, he became an educator at Bowdoin and, then, at Harvard College. His first major verse selections were Voices of the Night and Ballads and Other Poems. Henry later stopped working as a teacher, to devote his time on writing. He resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts for most of his life, in a previous Revolutionary War head office of George Washington. His first marriage was with Mary Potter who died after having a miscarriage. His second marriage was with Frances Appleton who died after incurring severe injuries when her clothes got burned. When she died, Henry find it hard to write poetry for some time and centered on converting pieces into English language from other foreign dialects.
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