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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 21: the Loftier strain: Christus (search)
ar he wrote in Nahant, Begin to pack. I wish it were over and I in Cambridge. I am impatient to send The Divine Tragedy to the printers. On the 18th of October he wrote: The delays of printers are a great worry to authors; on the 25th, Get the last proof sheet of The Divine Tragedy; on the 30th, Read over proofs of the Interludes and Finale, and am doubtful and perplexed; on November 15, All the last week, perplexed and busy with final correction of The Tragedy. It was published on December 12, and he writes to G. W. Greene, December 17, 1871, The Divine Tragedy is very successful, from the booksellers' point of view—ten thousand copies were published on Tuesday last and the printers are already at work on three thousand more. That is pleasant, but that is not the main thing. The only question about a book ought to be whether it is successful in itself. It is altogether probable that in the strict views then prevailing about the very letter of the Christian Scriptures, a