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Identifier: americanlandsl02mitc (find matches)
Title: American lands and letters
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908
Subjects: American literature Authors, American
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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shrined in them into thesturdy prose with which he told about theFarmer and the Boy Who Stole His Apples,they would have proved blank shots. Thewording and the method made the brilliancyand the barb. Consider for a moment whatwould have become of Chaucers daintiest talesif a Noah Webster had dealt them out with hiseconomy of phrase; or, who would watch forthe stars shooting athwart Heaven if they car-ried in their trail only the dull tints of meteoriciron? It was counted not a little remarkable byboys in other colleges—that a professor on thebanks of the Charles, who could, and did, talklearnedly about Italian grammar, should yetstoop to the brilliant tracery (in verse) of theFootsteps of the Angels, and splice out his Hy-perion with rollicking songs about the Leath-ery Herr Papa—while we were following upour great officials in Day on the Will, or apretty problem in Algebra! What wonder ifthere should come about a literary florescencein the neighborhood of the Washington Elm, 180
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From a photograph, rnpyright. 1S70, by Sarony & Cn Henry Wadsworth Longfellow THE CRAIGIE HOUSE at Cambridge, which did not make gay the so-berer lands and Division-rooms to the south-ward ? In all these years of his earlier Harvard pro-fessorship, Longfellow is full of his Academicand literary industries—keeping his enthusias-tic students abreast of him in the march overeducational courses and busy with romanceand poem—so busy and so worn that he is com-pelled to take a run, in 1842, to the baths ofMarienburg, in Germany. From this trip hebrings back that high-flying marker of the Bel-fry of Bruges, also the so-called SlaveryPoems, and sundry notes forecasting his Tri-logy of Christ us. In 1843 he married the daughter of an es-teemed and wealthy merchant of Boston.Thenceforward the Craigie House, with itsWashington memories and its outlying greenfields, stretching to the Charles River, becamethe poets permanent home—notable for itstasteful equipments and for those gracious

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