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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, XVII (search)
erican translators is Bryant; and here I should utterly dissent from him. The best introduction to Homer in English is Matthew Arnold's Essay on Translating Homer; or rather it would be, but for its needless and diffuse length, which prevents many persons from really mastering it; but I do not see how any one, after reading it, can look through a page of Bryant's version without a sense of its utter tameness and its want of almost all the qualities defined by Arnold as essential to Homer. Mr. Lawton has finely said, at the beginning of his admirable papers on Aeschylus in the Atlantic Monthly August, 1888. that the Homeric poems offer us, as it were, a glimpse of a landscape scene by a flash of lightning. What came before and immediately after we cannot discern. But in Bryant's translation there is substituted for the flash of lightning the very mildest moonlight; and there seems no particular reason, from anything in the tone or flavor of his narrative, why the whole series of
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, Index (search)
184. Jefferson, Thomas, 4, 5, 11, 110, 155. Johnson, Samuel, 197. Joubert, Joseph, 26, 96, 194, 195. Jouffroy, T. S., 216. Junius, 190. K. Keats, John, 86, 103. Kipling, Rudyard, 15. Kock, Paul de, 56. Kotzebue, A. F. von, 90. Khayyam, Omar, 229. L. Lafontaine, A. 90. La Fontaine, J. de, 92. Lamartine, Alphonse, 182. Lamb, Charles, 217. Landor, W. S., 69, 197, 217. Lang, Andrew, 41, 199. Lanier, Sidney, 67. Lapham, Silas, 164, 184. Larousse, Pierre, 54. Lawton, W. C., 147. Leland, C. G., 151. Lincoln, Abraham, 4, 16, 67, 84, 155. Literary metropolis, A, 77. Literary pendulum, The, 213. Literary tonics, 62. Liveries, repressive, 75. London, the, of to-day, 80, 93. Longfellow, H. W., 29, 39, 66, 81, 93, 100, 155, 215. Longueville, Duchesse de, 91. Lowell, J. R., 19, 54, 59, 63, 66, 77, 96, 98, 100, 102, 114, 155, 179, 205. Lubbock, James, 217. Lytton, Lord, 179, 180, 181. 182. M. Macaulay, T. B., 25, 197. Madonnas, Emily Di
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 23: Longfellow as a poet (search)
in these belated revisions, and mentioned especially Bryant's Water-Fowl, As darkly limned upon the ethereal sky, where Longfellow preferred the original reading painted on. It is, however, rare to find a poet who can carry out this principle of abstinence, at least in his own verse, and we know too surely that Longfellow was no exception; thus we learn that he had made important alterations in the Golden Legend within a few weeks of publication. These things show that his remark to Mr. Lawton does not tell quite the whole story. As with most poets, his alterations were not always improvements. Thus, in The Wreck of the Hesperus, he made the fourth verse much more vigorous to the ear as it was originally written,— Then up and spoke an old sailor Had sailed the Spanish Main, than when he made the latter line read Sailed to the Spanish Main, as in all recent editions. The explanation doubtless was that he at first supposed the Spanish Main to mean the Caribbean Sea; whe