. American lands and letters. o u LONGFELLOW. 293 elusive, graceful figure of that Mary Aslibur-ton, Avliich had flitted coyly over some of the. Mrs. Longfellow. Front a reproduction o/ Roiuse^s crayon J>orirait^* tenderer pages of Hyperion — perhaps their sus-picions may have been well grounded. * In the Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Hough-ton, Mifflin & Co. 294 AMERICAN LANDS (Sr» LETTERS. Later Work and Years. There comes another swift trip to Europe forthis poet, on whom Fortune would seem to haveshowered its favors. Lesser poems, such as theVilkge Blacksmitli, or the Skeleton inA
. American lands and letters. o u LONGFELLOW. 293 elusive, graceful figure of that Mary Aslibur-ton, Avliich had flitted coyly over some of the. Mrs. Longfellow. Front a reproduction o/ Roiuse^s crayon J>orirait^* tenderer pages of Hyperion — perhaps their sus-picions may have been well grounded. * In the Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Hough-ton, Mifflin & Co. 294 AMERICAN LANDS (Sr» LETTERS. Later Work and Years. There comes another swift trip to Europe forthis poet, on whom Fortune would seem to haveshowered its favors. Lesser poems, such as theVilkge Blacksmitli, or the Skeleton inArmor/ make their winning assonance heardfrom time to time ; and in 1847 comes the largermusic of Evanyeline, in which he sweeps onbroad caesural, hexameter pinions, from the fir-fretted valleys of Acadia to the lazy, languoroustides which surge silently through the hayous ofLouisiana. There was an outcry at first — that this jooemshowed classic affectation; but the beauty and thepathos carried the heroine and the metre into allhearts and homes in all English-speaking Hiawatha came later, but not by many years;and this a
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