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Phantom Ship, on the basis of a legend in Mather's
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Magnalia, and urged the translation of Uhland's
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Das Glück von Edenhall and Pfizer's
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Junggesell. A scrap of newspaper, bearing the seal of the State of New York with the motto
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Excelsior, suggested the poem of that name.
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The Skeleton in Armor was included within the book and was originally to have given the title to it. Prescott, the historian, said that this poem and the
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Hesperus were the best imaginative poems since Coleridge's
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Ancient Mariner. Reading the tenth chapter of Mark in Greek, Longfellow thought of
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Blind Bartimeus. He wrote to his father that he liked the last two poems in the volume best, and thought them perhaps as good as anything he had written,--these being
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Maidenhood and
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Excelsior. It was also in this year that he conceived the plan of the
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Spanish Student and of
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It shows the quiet persistence of the poet's nature that this plan, thus conceived in 1841, was brought to a final conclusion, more than thirty years after, in 1873, and under the very name originally conceived, that of
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Christus. Thus much for this year of poetic achievement. His journals, as published by his brother, show the activity of social life which the year also included; and, above all, his regular academic work was of itself continuous and exhausting. In the schedule of university lectures, announced in the college catalogue for 1841-2, one finds the following entry:
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On the _French, Spanish, Italian, and German languages and literature_, by Professor Longfellow. In the list of officers there appear only three instructors as doing the detailed work of instruction under this professor, and the lecturing was done entirely by him, occupying three hours a week, on the afternoons of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. He was designated in the catalogue as
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Smith Professor of the French and Spanish languages and literature and Professor of Belles Lettres,