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said to be much liked and to do a great deal of
good. People praise in particular a story called Home,
which I shall endeavor to read. Miss Sedgwick was at
this time occupied in preparing a new edition of her
collected works. She consulted me about some proposed
alterations in her previous works, and I told her
that, for my own part, I should never alter anything
which I had written long since, even where I saw its
faults and could easily correct them; because, when
an author lives and writes through a long course of
years, his or her works constitute a history of that
author’s development which ought to remain unaltered
as a bit of history in itself, alike instructive to
him and to others. An author’s works are portions of
an autobiography which he must write whether he will
or not.
Longfellow, the author of Evangeline, is perhaps
the best read and most popular poet in America; but
this is owing to qualities which are common alike
to the older poets of all countries, rather than to
any peculiar characteristics of the New World. Those
sentiments, whether happy or sorrowful, which exist
in the breast of every superior human being are
peculiarly his domain, and here he exercises his sway,
particularly in the delineation of the more delicate
changes of feeling. In Evangeline, however, he has
dealt with an
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