Compare and Contrast: Wordsworth vs Wadsworth Longfellow

Name	William Wordsworth (1770-1850)	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Nationality	English	American
Poetic style	Romantic	Popular, sentimental
Hair Style	Sideburns	Beard
Reasons to Read	Poems are short, so easier to memorise.	Poems are narratives, so easier to understand.
Famous Poem	I wandered lonely as a cloud	Paul Revere's Ride or The Wreck of the Hesperus
Quotable Lines	Thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.	There was a little girl, Who had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, She was very good indeed, But when she was bad she was horrid.
Other	England's Poet Laureate 1843-1850 Good friends with Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Member of the Fireside Poets. Very popular during his lifetime. Said to be first American with running water.
More	Complete works at Bartleby.com William Wordsworth at Wikipedia	Selected poems at PoetryFoundation.org Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at Wikipedia