...s because he was born and bred near it — not to be found in either of his companion authors. There is doubtless a dramatic movement, an onward sweep in Longfellow's Wreck of the Hesperus and Sir Humphrey Gilbert such as Whittier never quite attained, and the same may be true of the quiet, emotional touch in Longfellow's The fire of Driftwood ; nor was there ever produced in America, perhaps, any merely med...