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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 21: the Loftier strain: Christus (search)
t was considered too daring by his critics or perhaps not quite daring enough to give full spirit to the scene. Turning now to The New England Tragedies, we find that as far back as 1839, before he had conceived of Christus, he had thought of a drama on Cotton Mather. Then a suggestion came to him in 1856 from his German friend, Emanuel Vitalis Scherb, of whom he writes on March 16, 1856: Scherb wants me to write a poem on the Puritans and the Quakers. A good subject for a tragedy. On March 25 and 26 we find him looking over books on the subject, especially Besse's Sufferings of the Quakers; on April 2 he writes a scene of the play; on May 1 and 2 he is pondering and writing notes, and says: It is delightful to revolve in one's mind a new conception. He also works upon it in a fragmentary way in July and in November, and remarks, in the midst of it, that he has lying on his table more than sixty requests for autographs. As a background to all of this lie the peculiar excitemen