An Outline Sketch of American Literature
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Those who have looked in his poetry for something else than poetry, or for poetry of some other kind, have not been slow to assert that he was a lady s poet. ; one who satisfied callow youths and school-girls by uttering com monplaces in graceful and musical shape, but who offered no strong meat for men. Miss Fuller called his poetry thin and the poet himself a " dandy Pindar. " This is not true of his poetry, 172 AMERICAN LITERATURE.
or of the best of it. But he had a singing and not a talking... voice, and in his prose one becomes sen sible of a certain weakness. Hyperioti, for exam ple, published in 1839, a loitering fiction, inter spersed with descriptions of European travel, is, upon the whole, a weak book, over flowery in dic tion and sentimental in tone.
The crown of Longfellow s achievements as a translator was his great version of Dante s Divina Cotnmedia, published between 1867 and 1870. It is a severely literal, almost a line for line, render ing. The meter is preserved, but the rhyme sac rificed.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Those who have looked in his poetry for something else than poetry, or for poetry of some other kind, have not been slow to assert that he was a lady s poet. ; one who satisfied callow youths and school-girls by uttering com monplaces in graceful and musical shape, but who offered no strong meat for men. Miss Fuller called his poetry thin and the poet himself a " dandy Pindar. " This is not true of his poetry, 172 AMERICAN LITERATURE.
or of the best of it. But he had a singing and not a talking... voice, and in his prose one becomes sen sible of a certain weakness. Hyperioti, for exam ple, published in 1839, a loitering fiction, inter spersed with descriptions of European travel, is, upon the whole, a weak book, over flowery in dic tion and sentimental in tone.
The crown of Longfellow s achievements as a translator was his great version of Dante s Divina Cotnmedia, published between 1867 and 1870. It is a severely literal, almost a line for line, render ing. The meter is preserved, but the rhyme sac rificed.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Beers Henry Augustin to read onlineMoreLess
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