Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Hiawatha’s Inspiration Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Longfellow tells us how his tale of a heroic Native American warrior came to him.

In 1855, American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published The Song of Hiawatha, a long narrative poem named after the twelfth-century Ojibwe warrior and leader of the Iroquois Confederacy of Native American peoples. The tale he told was wholly fictitious, but in the opening lines he nevertheless told us where he got it from.

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