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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 3: first Flights in authorship (search)
cannot but smile to see how much in them is really yours. It was an involuntary imitation, which I most readily confess. Still more interesting as a study in the Literary Gazette itself are three prose studies, distinctly after the manner of Irving, and headed by a very un-American title, The Lay Monastery. There is a singular parallelism between this fanciful title and the similar transformation in verse, at about the same time, in the Hymn of the Moravian Nuns at the consecration of Pulaski's banner. As in that poem a plain Moravian sisterhood, who supported their house by needlework, gave us an imaginary scene amid a chancel with cowled heads, glimmering tapers, and mysterious aisles, so the solitary in this prose article leads us into the society of an old uncle whose countenance resembles that of Cosmo on the medallions of the Medici, who has been crossed in love, and who wears a brocade vest of faded damask, with large sprigs and roses. The author thus proceeds in his d