CONTENTS
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Chap.
Page
I.
Longfellow as a Classic
1
II.
Birth, Childhood, and Youth
11
III.
First Flights in Authorship
21
IV.
Literature as a Pursuit
37
V.
First Visit to Europe
45
VI.
Marriage and Life at Brunswick
59
VII.
The Corner Stone laid
67
VIII.
Appointment at Harvard and Second Visit to Europe
81
IX.
Illness and Death of Mrs. Longfellow
107
X.
Craigie House
116
XI.
Hyperion and the Reaction from It
124
XII.
Voices of the Night
137
XIII.
Third Visit to Europe
149
XIV.
Anti-Slavery Poems and Second Marriage
163
XV.
Academic Life in Cambridge
176
XVI.
Literary Life in Cambridge
188
XVII.
Resignation of Professorship—to Death of Mrs. Longfellow
202
XVIII.
Birds of Passage
213
XIX.
Last Trip to Europe
219
XX.
Dante
225
vi
XXI.
The Loftier Strain: Christus
236
XXII.
Westminster Abbey
248
XXIII.
Longfellow as a Poet
258
XXIV.
Longfellow as a Man
278
Appendix
297
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