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Wadsworth Longfellow  The Day is Done Trivia  Brain Snacks:
Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge  The New-York Ledger paid Longfellow
$3,000 for a single poem in 1874 (source). That was a ton of
money back then, roughly equivalent to 50,000 dollars today!
Longfellow knew seven (!) different languages, and was a
professor of French, Spanish, and Italian (source).  Longfellow
was hugely popular and famous in his lifetime, in America and
around the world. At the end of the Civil War, there were 24
companies in London publishing his work (source).  Longfellow is
the only American to be honored in the Poets' Corner of
Westminster Abbey, the church in London where the kings and
queens of England are crowned and buried (source).  Next Page:
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