He worked with Franz Liszt for a musical setting of his story The Golden Legend. His early works include "The Battle of Lovell's Pond" and Hyperion, while his first collection, Voices of the Night, was criticized by Poe. He followed that up with a drama called The Spanish Student, but achieved much greater success with the 1854 publication of a narrative poem, the rhythms of which he based on the 
He worked with Franz Liszt for a musical setting of his story The Golden Legend. His early works include "The Battle of Lovell's Pond" and Hyperion, while his first collection, Voices of the Night, was criticized by Poe. He followed that up with a drama called The Spanish Student, but achieved much greater success with the 1854 publication of a narrative poem, the rhythms of which he based on the Kalevala. The only American writer buried in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey, for 10 points, name this author of "The Courtship of Miles Standish" and "Hiawatha."
He worked with Franz Liszt for a musical setting of his story The Golden Legend.
Henry Wadsworth {Longfellow}