[40] Life, i. 353.
[41] Boston Quarterly Review, January, 1840, iii. 128.
[42] Life, i. 354.
[43] North American Review, civ. 537.
[44] Carpenter’s Longfellow, p. 55.
[45] MS.
CHAPTER XII
VOICES OF THE NIGHT
There was never any want of promptness or of industry about Longfellow, though his time was apt to be at the mercy of friends or strangers. “Hyperion” appeared in the summer of 1839, and on September 12, 1839, he writes the title of his volume, “Voices of the Night;” five days later he writes, still referring to it:—
“First, I shall publish a collection of poems. Then,—History of English Poetry.
“Studies in the Manner of Claude Lorraine; a series of Sketches.