Represented by Irina Rusinovich, CEO of Haze Gallery in Berlin, Germany
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) is one of the world’s foremost 19th century poets selling 15,000 copies of The Courtship of Miles Standish on its first day of publication. Some of his greatest classics – Evangeline, Paul Revere’s Ride, and The Song of Hiawatha – were composed at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The home was also the former headquarters of George Washington during the American Revolutionary War. Longfellow was a member of the Fireside Poets comprised of William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., John Greenleaf Whittier, and James Russell Lowell. These were the first Americans to achieve international fame on a par with British rivals like Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Such was Longfellow’s renown that, for at least a half century after his death, a national fascination developed over his house, and blueprints were sold by Sears Roebuck. The Longfellow family established a trust, and the mid-Georgian style house and contents were donated to the National Park Service in 1972. The house is now part of a complex of high-profile parks in the greater Boston area that includes John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site and Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site.
This is the first fine art photographic collection documenting the relationship between the creative output of this world-renowned poet and his home. The project was commissioned in 2014 by the National Park Service and is the first such collection in the history of the park. Many of these large images can be juxtaposed with verses Longfellow composed at his house thus giving new life to, and appreciation for, his iconic poems. Like poetry itself, the photographs invite exploration – objects and meanings are not revealed by one glance.
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