FTP, who is this poet of  Paul Revere's Ride and The Song of Hiawatha?
This author‘s enormous popularity in his lifetime led to him being dubbed one of the five Fireside Poets, since families would gather round the hearth to read his poems. Lectures on Goethe inspired his A Psalm of Life, which was collected in Voices in the Night with a poem where the title character stands ―Under a spreading chestnut-tree‖, The Village Blacksmith. His most well-known poem contains the lines ―By the shores Gitche Gummee / By the shining Big-Sea- Water / Stood the wigwam of Nokomis‖ and tells of the title character‘s love for Minniehaha. FTP, who is this poet of  Paul Revere's Ride and The Song of Hiawatha?
This author‘s enormous popularity in his lifetime led to him being dubbed one of the five Fireside Poets, since families would gather round the hearth to read his poems.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow