...travels" that distracted him from his schoolwork: "How wistfully would I wander about the pier heads in fine weather, and watch the parting ships, bound...and waft myself in imagination to the ends of the earth."21 That Hawthorne thought of Irving, Longfellow, and Willis as of-a-kind is evident from his...

...I neglected the regular exercises of the school. How wistfully would I wander about the pier heads in fine weather, and watch the parting ships, bound...gaze after their lessening sails, and waft myself in imaginations to the ends of the earth ! Farther reading and thinking, though they brought this vague...