_Outre-Mer, A Pilgrimage beyond the Sea_, 1835; _Hyperion, a Romance_, 1839; _Voices of the Night_, 1839; _Ballads and Other Poems_, 1842; _Poems on Slavery_, 1842; _The Spanish Student_, 1843; _The Waif, a Collection of Poems_, 1845 (edited); _The Poets and Poetry of Europe_, 1845 (edited); _The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems_, 1846; _The Estray, a Collection of Poems_, 1847 (edited); _Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie_, 1847; _Kavanagh, a Tale_, 1849; _The Seaside and the Fireside_, 1850; _The Golden Legend_, 1851; _The Song of Hiawatha_, 1855. After eighteen years of service at Harvard, Longfellow, in 1855, resigned his professorship, handing over its responsibilities to a worthy successor, James Russell Lowell. Released from academic duties, he was able to give himself unreservedly to literary work. Even in these new conditions he enjoyed less freedom than would be supposed. Longfellow had become a world-famous poet and was compelled to pay in full measure the penalties of fame. The demands on his time were enormous. As his reputation increased there was a proportionate increase in the army of visitors which besieged his door. The uniform kindness of their reception encouraged hundreds more to come. The beautiful serenity of Longfellow’s domestic life was broken in upon by a frightful tragedy. One July morning in 1861 Mrs. Longfellow’s dress caught fire from a lighted match. It was impossible to save her, and she died the following day. The poet never recovered from the shock of her death. How crushing the blow was may be faintly conceived from that poem, ‘The Cross of Snow,’ found among his papers after his death. During the last quarter century of his life Longfellow published the following books: _The Courtship of Miles Standish_, 1858; _Tales of a Wayside Inn_, 1863; _Flower-de-Luce_, 1867; _The New England Tragedies_, 1868; _Dante’s Divine Comedy, a Translation_,[29] 1867–70; _The Divine Tragedy_, 1871; _Christus, a Mystery_, 1872;[30] _Three Books of Song_, 1872; _Aftermath_, 1873; _The Masque of Pandora_, and _Other Poems_, 1875; _Poems of Places_, 1876–79 (edited); _Kéramos and Other Poems_, 1878; _Ultima Thule_, 1880. The posthumous volumes were _In the Harbor_, 1882, and _Michael Angelo_, 1884.