Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, American poet, born at Portland, Maine; after studying on the Continent, became professor of Modern Languages in Harvard University; wrote “Hyperion,” a romance in prose, and a succession of poems as well as lyrics, among the former “Evangeline,” “The Golden Legend,” “Hiawatha,” and “Miles Standish” (1807‒1882).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Longchamp, William de * Longinus, Dionysius Cassius