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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 4: Longfellow (search)
by his brother, I. p. 377. This was written May 19, 1841, when Poe's Tales of the Grotesque and the Arabesque were published, but almost unknown. He fared on the whole mildly with the critics, and the most serious charge made against him was, perhaps, that recorded by him as follows (February 6, 1846): The Anti-Slavery papers attack me for leaving out the slavery poems in the illustrated edition. They are rather savage. This referred to an edition published by Hart in Philadelphia, November, 1845, and the omission was due, his brother thinks, to a too goodnatured concession to the expressed wish of the publishers. Several other instances of this good nature had occurred on the part of others, and the abolitionists could not easily ignore it. It is to be remembered, on the other hand, that these poems were all included in the cheap edition published by Harper but a few months later (February, 1846), and that Longfellow might justly regard this as the one destined to reach the peo