Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . ^Tature. Analyze this sentence. 392-399- Never man . . leads. Transpose into the prose order, supplyingthe ellipsis.—Point out a metaphor in this passage. 404-406. When . . noon. What circumstance is deftly introduced by thepoet to break his reverie ? 49° LONGFELLOW. The church bell from the neighboring townProclaimed the welcome hour of Potter heard, and stopped his
Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . ^Tature. Analyze this sentence. 392-399- Never man . . leads. Transpose into the prose order, supplyingthe ellipsis.—Point out a metaphor in this passage. 404-406. When . . noon. What circumstance is deftly introduced by thepoet to break his reverie ? 49° LONGFELLOW. The church bell from the neighboring townProclaimed the welcome hour of Potter heard, and stopped his wheel,His apron on the grass threw down,Whistled his quiet little tuneNot overloud nor overlong,And ended thus his simple song: 32. Stop., stop, my wheel! Too soon, too soon,The noon will be the afternoon. Too soon to-day be yesterday :Behind us in our path we castThe broken potsherds of the Past,And all are ground to dust at last,And troddeii into clav I Literary Analysis.—412-418. Stop • . clay! Point out examples of itera-tion.—Point out a metaphor.—As a closing study tlie stanzas embodying thesong of the Potter may be read by themselves consecutively. XXXIII. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. CHARACTERIZATION BY DAVID WASSON.^ I. Whittier has not the liberated, light-winged, Greek imagina-tion—imagination not involved and included in the religious sen-timent, but playing in epic freedom and with various interpreta- From the Atlantic Monthly, March, 1864. 492 WASSONS CHARACTERIZATION OF WHITTIER. tion between religion and intellect; he has not the flowing, Pro-tean, imaginative sympathy, the power of instant self-identificationwith all forms of character and life which culminated in Shake-speare ; but that imaginative vitality which lurks in faith and con-science, producing what we may call ideal force of heart. This hehas eminently; and it is this central, invisible, Semitic heat whichmakes him a poet. 2. Imagination exists in him not as a separable faculty, but
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