The Childrens Own Longfellow

By Longfellow, Henry

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Title:	The Childrens Own Longfellow
Author:	Longfellow, Henry
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Essay, Drama
Collections:	Authors Community
Historic Publication Date:	BookRix Community
Publisher:	December 2Nd, 2014


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Description: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Was Enrolled in a Dame School at the Age of Three and By Age Six Was Enrolled at the Private Portland Academy. In His Years There, He Earned a Reputation As Being Very Studious and Became Fluent in Latin. [6] His Mother Encouraged His Enthusiasm for Reading and Learning, Introducing Him to Robinson Crusoe and Don Quixote. [7] He Printed His First Poem — a Patriotic and Historical Four-Stanza Poem Called The Battle of Lovells Pond — in the Portland Gazette on November 17, 1820. [8] He Stayed at the Portland Academy Until the Age of Fourteen. He Spent Much of His Summers As a Child at His Grandfather Pelegs Farm in the Western Maine Town of Hiram.