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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 7: the corner stone laid (search)
hen Longfellow was writing these somewhat trivial contributions for The Token, he was also engaged on an extended article for The North American Review, which was a great advance upon all that he had before published. His previous papers had all been scholarly, but essentially academic. They had all lain in the same general direction with Ticknor's History of Spanish Literature, and had shared its dryness. But when he wrote, at twenty-four, an article for The North American Review of January, 1832, North American Review, XXXIV. 56. called The Defence of Poetry, taking for his theme Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesy, just then republished in the Library of the Old English Prose Writers, at Cambridge, Mass., it was in a manner a prediction of Emerson's oration, The American Scholar, five years later. So truly stated were his premises that they are still valid and most important for consideration to-day, after seventy years have passed. It is thus that his appeal begins— . .