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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 28 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 18 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays 16 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 16 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 14 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 12 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier 12 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment 12 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 8 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 6 0 Browse Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 3., Maria del Occidente. (search)
Lalla. She also adds: In the Choric Song of Tennyson's Lotos-Eaters the mosaic detail of sensuous description, though as delicate, is not as thoughtful nor so warm in feeling; and again, Milton's presentment of Satan, though a grand is a somewhat coarse appeal to our physical perceptions—Zophiel a sombre presence of mystic power and beauty, infused with evil and impressive by the distinctively spiritual significance of the vision. Southey's enthusiastic appreciation is well known. Charles Lamb rose from the reading of Zophiel with the exclamation: Southey says it is by some Yankee woman; as if there had ever been a woman capable of anything so great! And still Zophiel remains unread and even unknown by name to the general reader. And yet, although the machinery is cumbersome, the lines often weak and the meaning obscure, the situations, even when dramatically conceived, lacking that touch of realism which stirs the heart, a sympathetic reader cannot fail to find pleasure a