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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 4: Longfellow (search)
waving over the Gesprengte Thurm was no longer there, but had shared the fate of the Chestnut Tree in The village blacksmith. Poets' trees, I had supposed, must be as immortal as their personal laurels. Professor Longfellow's diaries have been so frankly and sincerely edited by his brother that we see the personality of the man as in a glass, and also receive a vivid impression of his circle of companionship. It is a curious fact that while the details in this respect were criticised by London journals as being too profuse,--inasmuch as several persons were mentioned whose names were previously unfamiliar to those particular critics,--they were criticised on the other hand in Germany as not sufficiently minute for the more thorough and laborious German mind. In comparing these self-revelations with those given in the letters of Holmes and Lowell, one is struck with their far less brilliant and scintillating tone and, on the other hand, with their comparative evenness and equanim