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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 16: literary life in Cambridge (search)
erry, sent him by an unknown correspondent. One poem was suggested by a passage in Andersen's Story of my Life, and one was written at Boppard on the Rhine. All the rest were distinctly American in character or origin. Another poem, To the Driving Cloud, the chief of the Omaha Indians, was his first effort at hexameters and prepared the way for Evangeline. His translation of the Children of the Lord's Supper had also served by way of preparation; and he had happened upon a specimen in Blackwood's Magazine of the hexameter translation of the Iliad which had impressed him very much. He even tried a passage of Evangeline rendered into English pentameter verse, and thus satisfied himself that it was far less effective for his purpose than the measure finally adopted. There is no doubt that the reading public at large has confirmed the opinion of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes when he says, Of the longer poems of our chief singer, I should not hesitate to select Evangeline as the maste
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
143. Bandmann, 241, 242. Barbauld, Mrs., Anna Letitia, 62, 63. Barlow, Joel, 23. Barnard, Mr., 91. Bartlett, Elizabeth. See Wadsworth, Elizabeth B. Bartlett family, the, 13. Beattie, James, 62. Beaugency, 48. Becker, Rudolph Z., 161. Belgium, 158, 170. Bennett, Dr., 250. Bennoch, Mr., 250. Bentham, Mr., 91. Berlin, 98. Bernadotte, King, 94. Berryer, Antoine Pierre, 47. Besse, 239. Bierstadt, Mr., 221. Bigelow, John, his Life of Bryant, cited, 146 note. Blackwood's Magazine, 194. Blair, Robert, 62. Booth, John W., 241. Boppard, 158, 170, 193. Boston, 1, 4, 19, 23, 45, 67, 69, 72,81, 86, 92, 100, 129, 132, 146, 148, 167, 168, 215, 242, 278, 284, 286, 292; siege of, 116; fugitive slave cases in, 206. Boston Herald, the, quoted, 184, 185. Boston Public Library, 139 note, 167 note. Boston Quarterly Review, the, 125, 126 note. Bosworth, Dr., 111. Bowdler, Miss, Hannah, 62. Bowdoin, Mrs., gives fund to Bowdoin College, 45. Bowdoi