rope," 189-191;
his fame, 192;
"Evangeline," 194, 195;
compared with Scandinavian poets, 196, 197;
"Kavanagh," 198-200;
resigns professorship, 202-207;
begins "Hiawatha," 208;
writes "The Courtship of Miles Standish," 210;
death of his wife, 211;
shorter poems, 213-218;
sails for Europe, 219;
speech by, 219, 220;
receives honorary degree at Cambridge, Eng., 220, 221;
English praise for, 221-223;
receives honorary degree at Oxford, 223;
arrives home, 223;
works on Dante translation, 225;
friendly criticism, 226, 227;
comparison of early with late translations, 229-231;
comparison with Norton's translation, 231, 232;
"Christus," 236-238, 242, 243;
"New England Tragedies," 239;
requests for autographs, 240, 275, 276;
"The Divine Tragedy," 244;
criticisms of "The Divine Tragedy," 245, 246;
commemorated in Westminster Abbey, 248-257;
his works essentially American, 258-260;
interested in local affairs, 260;
dislikes English criticism of our literature, 263, 264;
manner in which his poems came to him, 264, 265;
his alterations, 266, 267;
compared with Browning, 270;
relations with Whittier and Emerson, 271, 272;
on Browning, 272, 273;
on Tennyson, 273;
his table-talk, 273-275;
unpublished poems, 276;
descriptions of, 278, 279;
his works popular, 280;
Cardinal Wiseman on, 281;
resembles Turgenieff, 282;
home life, 282-285;
member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Spanish Academy, 288;
removal of "spreading chestnut-tree" and armchair made, 289, 290;
his speech at Cambridge anniversary, 290, 291;
his study, 291, 292;
as a man, 292, 293;
sickness, 293;
death, 294.
Longfellow, Mary S. P., 172;
schoolmate of Longfellow, 60;
becomes Longfellow's wife, 60;
description of, 61;
her books, 62-64;
begins housekeeping, 66;
her letter about the Round Hill School, 81, 82;
her letter about Longfellow's "Outre-Mer," 83;
her letters about their European trip, 88-106;
her illness and death, 107-111;
H. W. Longfellow's letter about, 113-115;
her journals destroyed, 170.
Longfellow, Rev. Samuel, 71, 91, 92, 106;
his memoir of his brother, cited, 30 note, 85 note, 99 note, 189 note,
191 note, 199 note, 207 note, 224 note;
quoted, 37, 38, 41-43, 48-52, 113, 124, 126, 141, 145, 147, 148, 165,
168, 191, 192, 202, 203, 219-222, 226, 242, 245, 246, 257, 263, 264,
266, 276.
Longfellow, Stephe
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