Longfellow & the Queen"I assure you, Mr. Longfellow," the queen once told the poet, "you are very well known. All my servants read you..."
"Sometimes," the poet later told Oscar Wilde, "I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder if it was a deliberate slight!"
[Trivia: In 1840 Longfellow became the first American to have indoor plumbing installed in his home.]
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882) American poet [noted for his letters, and for such varied poetic works as The Children's Hour, Evangeline, Hiawatha, and Paul Revere's Ride]More Henry Longfellow anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
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