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Title: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; his life, his works, his friendships
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Austin, George Lowell, 1849-1893. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shepard
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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but his white hair andbeard gave him a patriarchal appearance more inkeeping with twenty years greater age. That was,however, the only sign of advanced years. Hiscomplexion was fresh, his eyes softly bright, andhis manner so courteous and winning, that thequestion of real or apparent age was at once for-gotten. The visitor felt himself at ease immediately,as if he had always belonged to the inner circleof the poets friends; and the secret of the strongaffection felt toward Longfellow by his literaryneighbors — and some might think rivals—was ex-plained. After a few minutes pleasant conversation inthe poets well-appointed study, James T. Fields,the poets publisher, and who was also a poet-pub-lisher, walked briskly up the snowy path from theold-fashioned gateway, and was warmly greeted.William D. Howells, then assistant editor of TheAtlantic Monthly, and a great favorite with boththe older Cambridge poets, quickly followed. Therewas a lively conversation for a short time, a remark
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THE TRANSLATION OF DANTE. 355 concerning the unusual absence of Charles EliotNorton, — snowed in, some one suggested,—andthen Longfellow, glancing at the clock, said School-time ! Each of the visitors was handed a copy ofDante in the original, with which to follow thetranslation as read from the j^rinted sheets. Ipleaded my insufficient acquaintance with the Ital-ian, but the schoolmaster would not let me offthus. All scholars must work, said Longfellow;and he handed me a volume containing a proseliteral translation, with the injunction that anymarked difference in the rendering of a word orconstruing the sense of a passage must be noted, ifa doubt as to its propriety arose. Then all settleddown to close study. As a preliminary, Longfellow took from a drawerthe sheets which had been passed upon at the pre-vious meeting, and on which he had noted the sug-gestions, objections, and doubts of the scholarsmade at that time. These had all been carefullyconsidered, some amendments accept

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