Identifier: historyprogresso09sand (find matches)
Title: The history and progress of the world
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Sanderson, Edgar, d. 1907 Lamberton, John Porter, 1839-1917, joint author Morris, Charles, 1833-1922, joint author
Subjects: World history Philosophers Women Statesmen Statesmen Literature
Publisher: Philadelphia, T. Nolan
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prideis transformed into a poor court jester while an angeltakes his place for a reformatory spell upon the throne.The same gift enabled him to treat at such elaborate lengthhis two notable American epics, Evangeline, whichdepicts the woes of the cruelly dispersed Arcadians inGabriels long and futile pursuit of his w^andering sweet-heart, and The Courtship of )\Iiles Standish, which tellshow that sturdy but Cupid-fearing warrior sent JohnAlden as his proxy to woo the fair Priscilla. Said Pris-cilla: Why do you not speak for yourself, John? andthe poem ends with the mild clerk and not the fierce war-rior as its real hero. In Hiaw^atha he achieved the poet-ical apotheosis of the American Indian; not such a roman-tic idealization as that of Coopers Uncas nor such aheroic idealization as Simms Yemassee Chieftain, Sanu-tee, but an idealization of the Indians religious spirit,his sense of the Grand IManitou, his feeling for the mys-tery and beauty of nature, and his appreciation of those I
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AMERICAN 429 gifts of his native soil, as embodied in the myth of thebirth of the maize. But perhaps Longfellows best, rip-est, most scholarly achievement in poetry was his trans-lation of Dantes Divina Commedia, pubhshed in 1867.How deeply he lingered throughout this long labor oflove under the spell of the stern Florentine may be seenin those sonnets inspired by his work and effectively mir-roring on their surface this mediaeval miracle of song.Longfellows translation is in many respects, such as themetrical and onomatopoetic, superior to that of DoctorCarey. Two tales in prose by him are Kavanagh andHyperion, the latter of which with its scenes laid inEurope, is an expression of the ideals of his heart. Theserenity of his poetic work as a whole w^as reflected in hislife and especially in his old age. As he himself said inhis poem for the fiftieth anniversary of the graduationof his class, the beautiful Morituri Salutamus: And as the evening twilight fades away,The sky is filled wit

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