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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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