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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 13: third visit to Europe (search)
e latter being his friend Samuel Ward, in New York, who suggested the Phantom Ship, on the basis of a legend in Mather's Magnalia, and urged the translation of Uhland's Das Gluck von Edenhall and Pfizer's Junggesell. A scrap of newspaper, bearing the seal of the State of New York with the motto Excelsior, suggested the poem of that name. The Skeleton in Armor was included within the book and was originally to have given the title to it. Prescott, the historian, said that this poem and the Hesperus were the best imaginative poems since Coleridge's Ancient Mariner. Reading the tenth chapter of Mark in Greek, Longfellow thought of Blind Bartimeus. He wrote to his father that he liked the last two poems in the volume best, and thought them perhaps as good as anything he had written,—these being Maidenhood and Excelsior. It was also in this year that he conceived the plan of the Spanish Student and of a long and elaborate poem by the holy name of Christ, the theme of which would be th