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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 23: Longfellow as a poet (search)
rk 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; whereas it actually referred only to the southern shore of it. Still more curious is the history of a line in one of his favorite poems, To a Child. Speaking of this, he says in his diary, Life, II. 189. Some years ago, writing an Ode to a child, I spoke of The buried treasures of the miser, Time. What was my astonishment to-day, in reading for the first time in my life Wordsworth's ode On the power of sound, to read All treasures hoarded by the miser, time. As a mat
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
Cambridge, Mass., 38, 40-42, 57, 75,82, 84, 116-118, 121, 139, 154, 160,169,172,179,181,182,187,192,203,205, 214, 215, 244, 272, 283, 289; Longfellow's address to the children of, 55; establishes himself in, 133; Longfellow's speech at the anniversary of, 290, 291; schools of, celebrate Longfellow's seventy-fifth birthday, 291. Cambridge Tribune, the, 117 note. Cambridge, Eng., 220, 288. Campbell, Thomas, 7, 62. Canova, Anthony, 34. Carey & Lea, 51. Carey and Hart, 166. Caribbean Sea, 266. Carlisle, Eng., 219. Carlyle, Thomas, 87, 90, 92, 259. Carlyle, Mrs., Thomas, 90, 92. Carlyles, the, 91. Carpenter, Prof. George R., 127; his Longfellow, cited, 127 note, 166 note. Carter, Mr. (Longfellow's teacher), 15,17. Carter, James G., 23. Cervantes, Miguel de, 188. Chamberlain Collection of Autographs, 139 note. Channing, W. Ellery, 271. Channing, Rev. William E., 11, 164. Chantrey, Sir, Francis, 90. Charles River, 116, 118. Chasles, Prof., Philarete,