Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Memorial, 1912-1914 (1913)

Location: Longfellow Park, in front of the Longfellow House, 105 Brattle St., (the official name, Longfellow National Historic Site, administered by the National Park Service, temporarily closed to the public throughout 2001 but from where walking tours originate daily) Mt. Auburn St. (parallel to Memorial Drive), Cambridge.

Description: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), the American "Poet Laureate" and the most widely read of American poets, was professor of modern languages at Harvard from 1835 to 1854. French portrays him in a bronze bust set against a marble relief of characters from his writings, left to right: Miles Standish, Sandalphon (the Angel of Glory and of Prayer, who hears the prayers that rise from earth and turns them into flowers that perfume heaven), the Village Blacksmith, the Spanish Student, Evangeline, and Hiawatha. (The sculptor's daughter posed for Evangeline.)

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