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Cary, as is said, has Miltonized Dante and Mr. Longfellow's work while the best in metre is often misleading. In Professor Norton's translation the sense is rendered literally and almost word for word in prose, perfect in strength and elegance. The charm imparted by such flawless form in which each word chosen is felt to be the only word perfectly suited, is so great that one reads and forgets to miss the swing of a metre...
...supposed that all tastes will prefer a prose Dante to the Dantes of Longfellow or even Cary, but to the reader who is at all familiar with the music of the Italian Dante it is hardly to be doubted but that Professor Norton's will be the most generally satisfactory English rendering. Such a reader in the vividly reproduced sentences of the great poem will have suggested in his own mind the melody of the Italian...
...picture, had been dead for some years, and Dr. Holmes had just left Cambridge for Boston, - when Allston was living at "The Port," Judge Story on Brattle Street, the Fays in their large house where the "Harvard Annex" is now, Professor and Mrs. Farrar on Kirkland Street, and Longfellow, a slender, blonde young professor, was lodging in the Craigie House, which became his home afterwards. He pays a glowing tribute to Lowell's wife, and dilates at some length upon her influence on her husband. Harvard men will feel themselves thoroughly at home in reading the article...
...John Cummings, Hiawatha.- Longfellow...
...Longfellow, Hawthorne, Chief Justice Fuller and Speaker Reed are graduates of Bowdoin...