...ried to make it appear that Hawthorne had borrowed from himself. He returned again and again to the attack on Longfellow as a willful plagiarist, denouncing the trivial resemblance between his and Tennyson 's , as belonging to the most barbarous class of literary piracy. To make this attack was, as he boasted, to throttle the guilty; and while dealing thus ferociously with Longfellow, thus condescen...