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Christus as a whole, and more especially that portion of it on which the author lavished his highest and most consecrated efforts,
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The Divine Tragedy. Mr. Scudder has well said that
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as the
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Christus, and it shows his sensitive reticence that the portion of it which was first published,
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The Golden Legend (1851), gave to the reader no suggestion of its being, as we now know that it was, but a portion of a larger design. Various things came in the way, and before
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The Divine Tragedy appeared (1871) he had written of it,
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I never had so many doubts and hesitations about any book as about this. On September 11 in that year he wrote in Nahant,
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Begin to pack. I wish it were over and I in Cambridge. I am impatient to send 'The Divine Tragedy' to the printers. On the 18th of October he wrote:
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The delays of printers are a great worry to authors; on the 25th,
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Get the last proof sheet of 'The Divine Tragedy;' on the 30th,
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Read over proofs of the 'Interludes' and 'Finale,' and am doubtful and perplexed; on November 15,
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All the last week, perplexed and busy with final correction of 'The Tragedy.' It was published on December 12, and he writes to G. W. Greene, December 17, 1871,
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Received from Routledge in London, three notices of 'The Tragedy,' all hostile.