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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 5: first visit to Europe (search)
ation in the Italian heart. Virgil's tomb was not far off. The spot consecrated by Sannazaro's ashes was near us. And over all, with a thrill like that of solemn music, fell the splendor of the Italian sunset. Scudder's Men and Letters, 28, 29. As an illustration of this obvious fact that Longfellow, during this first European visit, while nominally training himself for purely educational work, was fitting himself also for a literary career, we find from his letter to his father, May 15, 1829, that while hearing lectures in German and studying faithfully that language, he was, as he says, writing a book, a kind of Sketch-Book of scenes in France, Spain, and Italy. We shall presently encounter this book under the name of Outre-Mer. He connects his two aims by saying in the same letter, One must write and write correctly, in order to teach. Again he adds, The further I advance, the more I see to be done. The more, too, I am persuaded of the charlatanism of literary men. For