Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was an American poet, whose best known works include "Paul Revere's Ride," The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline.
==References==
* Oscar the Grouch refers to the kids as "Henry Wigglesworth Longfool" when they yell their responses as he reads his incomplete poems in Episode 1061 of Sesame Street.
*"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day," whose lyrics are derived from Longfellow's "Christmas Bells" poem, was performed in A Muppet Family Christmas.
*The seventh season Muppet Babies episode "Quoth the Weirdo" features Nanny reading "The Song of Hiawatha" to the babies (who struggle with references to the shores of Gitche Gumee). Their version casts Baby Kermit in the title role.
*Episode 2718 of Sesame Street features Denzel Washington playing a Grouch poetry writer named Henry Wadsworth Wrongfellow.
*The Muppets use Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride" (with additional dialogue by Sam the Eagle) for their telling of his story in one of The Muppets Present… Great Moments in American History shows.
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