I. Longfellow as a Classic 1 II. Birth, Childhood, and Youth 11 III. First Flights in Authorship 21 IV. Literature as a Pursuit 37 V. First Visit to Europe 45 VI. Marriage and Life at Brunswick 59 VII. The Corner Stone laid 67 VIII. Appointment at Harvard and Second Visit to Europe 81 IX. Illness and Death of Mrs. Longfellow 107 X. Craigie House 116 XI. Hyperion and the Reaction from It 124 XII. Voices of the Night 137 XIII. Third Visit to Europe 149 XIV. Anti-Slavery Poems and Second Marriage 163 XV. Academic Life in Cambridge 176 XVI. Literary Life in Cambridge 188 XVII. Resignation of Professorship-- to Death of Mrs. Longfellow 202 XVIII. Birds of Passage 213 XIX. Last Trip to Europe 219 XX. Dante 225 XXI. The Loftier Strain: Christus 236 XXII. Westminster Abbey 248 XXIII. Longfellow as a Poet 258 XXIV. Longfellow as a Man 278 Appendix 297 HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW CHAPTER I LONGFELLOW AS A CLASSIC