File:American lands and letters (1905) (14764286871).jpg

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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ent, thatthe delicate verse of the latter seems to me to glideover the passionate, divinely wronght lines of theItalian, as a skater glides over ice—nowhere cut-ting to the depths — nowhere breaking throughthe rhetorical crust, under which the floods riotand writhe. But why make ungracious comparisons ? Themaker of an Inferno is maker of an epoch ; andthis Cambridge poet of ours who tells deft storiesof the old Sudbury Inn, and measures in beguilingand unmatchable strain the blessings of Resig-nation, and who, arm-in-arm with an idealizedEvangeline, traverses the land from end to end,has thereby lifted the weight of sorrow from somany grieving ones, and jiut such a lifting andconsoling joyousness into the spirits of so manythousands, that we call down benisons on liim andrevere his name and his memory. It was a placid and serene life that the poetlived ; he had the love and respect of impilswhenever and wherever he taught; his friendswere multiiilied year by year; only once — in
Text Appearing After Image:
H. W. Longfellow. WHITTIER. 305 Poes nncanny day, did he suffer from the stabs ofnngracions criticism; the toils of poverty or theharrowing constraints of narrowed means neverwrapt him in ; always that wide, generous homewas his own — always open to hospitalities thatkindled in him new vigor. Only once a griefburst upon him which was without its nepenthe ;twas when the benign womanly presence whichhad blessed his heart and his household was sweptaway, before his very eyes, and his unavailing strug-gles—in a cloud of fire and smoke—into darkness !A world of readers, far and near, shared inthat grief. And when the labors, whose pursuitmitigated and assuaged the great sorrow, weredone, and he, too, passed away, there were thou-sands, both in America and in England, who felt,with a sinking of the heart, that a good friendand a melodious singer had gone. Another Neio Englander. Another, yet of a different strain and mould,was that poet* of Ma2(d 3fuIIer and many other * John G. Whitt

Note About Images