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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 20: Dante (search)
arm exerted by the original over all who can read Italian, while those earlier and fragmentary specimens had certainly possessed something of that charm. Those favorite versions, it must be remembered, were not the result of any cooperated labor, having been written by Professor Longfellow in an interleaved copy of Dante which he used in the class room. They were three in number, all from the Purgatorio and entitled by him respectively, The Celestial Pilot, The Terrestrial Paradise, and Beatrice. They were first published in Voices of the Night (1839), and twenty-eight years had passed before the later versions appeared. Those twenty-eight years had undoubtedly enhanced in width and depth Mr. Longfellow's knowledge of the Italian language; their labors and sorrows had matured the strength of his mind; but it is not so clear that they had not in some degree diminished its freshness and vivacity, nor is it clear that the council of friendly critics would be an influence tending to