Identifier: americanlandslet01mitcuoft (find matches)
Title: American lands and letters
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism Authors, American
Publisher: New York C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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H. W. Longfellow, From a photograph in the collection of Mr. Peter Giltsey. (not this photograph) :
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LONGFELLOW'S DANTE. 301 but there is no careering blast of Divine wind sweeping through the highways all, and clearing them of putrescent dusts. For kindred reasons I cannot share in manyof the higher estimates which have been placed upon the poets Dantean labors. Scholarship, loving care, and conscientious study are lavished in abundance; lingual graces are not lacking; nortechnical power to match measure for measure.But back of all there seems to be large want of effective kinship, in this kindly, serene, studious—yet joyous New Englander—with that intense, soldierly, deep-thoughted Italian — whose Beatrice was a rich, swift dream of his youth, and Florence, the fair city, with its hopes and splendors, adream of all his years. It was not for the grace-ful scholar and the meditative master of Cam-bridge life to march with a tread that should echo afar, and with a clang of armor that might shake the walls of Erebus, into the shades whered well the Blessed and the Damned. Not for him to

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