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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 16: literary life in Cambridge (search)
eater acuteness of the French mind than of the English, when discussing American themes. Writing at that early period, M. Chasles at once recognized, for instance, the peculiar quality of Emerson's genius. He describes Longfellow, in comparison, asng the heart of the maiden. The calm and magical moonlight Seemed to inundate her soul. It is curious to notice that Chasles makes the same criticism on Evangeline that Holmes made on Lowell's Vision of Sir Launfal; namely, that there is in it a although as he says, There is no passion in it, still there is a perpetual air of youth and innocence and tenderness. M. Chasles is also impressed as a Catholic with the poet's wide and liberal comprehension of the Christian ideas. It is not, he tme has so far vindicated, that it has qualities which guarantee to it something like immortality. When we consider that Chasles wrote at a time when all our more sub-Stantial literature seemed to him to consist of uninteresting state histories and