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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 7: romance, poetry, and history (search)
countrymen has thus become a national asset, and not merely because in his three best known narrative poems, Evangeline, Hiawatha, and The Courtship of miles Standish, he selected his themes from our own history. The building of the ship, written with full faith in the troubled year of 1849, is a national anthem. It is a wonderful gift, said Lincoln, as he listened to it, his eyes filled with tears, to be able to stir men like that. The Skeleton in Armor, a ballad of the French Fleet, Paul Revere's Ride, the Wreck of the Hesperus, are ballads that stir men still. For all of his skill in story-telling in verse-witness the Tales of a Wayside Inn-Longfellow was not by nature a dramatist, and his trilogy now published under the title of Christus, made up of The divine tragedy, the golden legend, and New England tragedies, added little to a reputation won in other fields. His sonnets, particularly those upon Chaucer, Milton, the Divina Commedia, a Nameless grave, Felton, Sumner, nat
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Index. (search)
nsion in Foreigners, Lowell 174 Oratory in America, 208 et seq. Oregon Trail, the, Parkman 184 Otis, James, 72, 73 Our hundred days, Holmes 168 Outcast of Poker Flat, the, Harte 242 Outre-mer, Longfellow 152 Overland monthly, 240 Page, T. N., 246, 247 Paine, Thomas, 74-76 Parker, Theodore, 115, 119, 141, 206 Parkman, Francis, 143-44, 176, 182-86 Passage to India, Whitman 204 Passionate Pilgrim, a, James 253 Pathfinder, the, Cooper 99 Pattee, F. L., 236 Paul Revere's Ride, Longfellow 155 Paulding, J. K., 107 Payne, J. H., 107 Pennsylvania, University of, 62 Pennsylvania Gazette, 62 Pennsylvania magazine, 74 Pequot War (1637), 38-39 Percy, George, 27, 38 Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 249 Philip II, history of the Reign of, Prescott 179 Phillips, Wendell, 208, 215-16 Picture of New York, Mitchill 90 Pilot, the, Cooper 98 Pioneers, O pioneers, Whitman 204 Pioneers, the, Cooper 97-98, 99 Pioneers of France, the, Parkman 1