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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 20: Dante (search)
eached the highest point attained by Goethe, from the mere difference between the two languages with which he and his original had to deal. The charm of Longfellow's earlier versions is, after all, an English charm, and perhaps the quality of Dante can no more be truthfully transmuted into this than we can transmute the charms of a spring morning into those of a summer afternoon, or violets into roses. Goethe, it is well known, took for his model as to the language of Faust the poetry of Hans Sachs, Longfellow's cobbler bard; and Dante's terse monosyllables were based upon the language of the people, which he first embodied in art. To mellow its refreshing brevities would perhaps be to destroy it, and that which Mr. Andrews finely says of the Faust may be still more true of the Divina Commedia, that it must remain, after all, the enchanted palace; and the bodies and the bones of those who in other days strove to pierce its encircling hedge lie scattered thickly about it. So Mr. W. C
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
Rhine River, 131, 170, 193. Richter, Jean Paul, 64, 112, 113, 127. Riddle, George, 290. Riedesel, Baroness, 117. Robert College, 3. Robinson, Rowland, 198. Rolfe, Prof. William J., 8; on Longfellow, 287, 288. Rome, 132, 148, 215, 223. Rosendale, 94. Rossetti, Dante G., 190. Rotterdam, 107, 111. Round Hill School, 81. Routledge, Mr., 245. Rubens, Peter P., 161. Ruskin, John, 238, 262, 286; his Modern Painters, quoted, 237. Russia, 43. Russia, steamer, 219. Sachs, Hans, 234. Sacobezon, an Indian chief, 207. Sailly, Madame de, 47. St. Gothard Pass, 223. Salem, Mass., 240. Sannazaro, J., 54. Savannah, Ga., 119. Scherb, Emmanuel V., 239. Schlosser, Friedrich Christoph, 112. Schoolmaster, the, 67, 68. Scott, Sir, Walter, 7, 265. Scudder, Horace E., 24, 73, 243; his Longfellow and his Art, mentioned, 53; his Men and Letters, cited, 54 note; quoted, 261; his Lowell, cited, 168 note; on Longfellow, 269. Sebago Pond, 51. Sevigne, Madame de, 1