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The Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Outre-mer. Drift-wood
The Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Outre-mer Drift-wood Author:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: APPENDIX I. LIST OF MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. As stated in the note heading Drifi-Wood, Mr. Longfellow designed at one time to publish " a volume of old matter... more »s collected from corners of reviews and magazines, to be called Driftwood." It is hardly likely however that he would have included in that volume all of his miscellaneous prose papers. During the early years of his professorship, down to the date of his first collection of poems, Ms pen was busy with subjects connected with his academic work, and even after it was clear that the poetic was the literary form most congenial to him, he continued to write critical and biographical essays upon subjects related to his work of setting forth foreign literature, — a work which in the shape of translation occupied him all his life. The following is a list of his several prose writings so far as traced, exclusive of his Outre-Mer and his work iu fiction. The Lay Monastery : 1. Authors and Writers. 2. Winter Months. 3. The Literary Spirit of our Country : The United States Literary Gazette, March 1, March 15, April 1,1825. The Schoolmaster : The New England Magazine, 1831-1833. See Introductory Note to Outre-Mer, ante, p. 9. Origin and Progress of the French Language : The North American Review, April, 1831. See ante, p. 15. The Defence of Poetry : The North American Review, January, 1832. See ante, p. 14. The Devotional Poetry of Spain : The North American Review, April, 1832. See ante, p. 14. Hisiory of the Italian Language and Dialects : The North American Review, October, 1832. Review of Mancinelli's Dialoghi: The American Monthly Review, October, 1832. Ancient French Romances : The Select Journal of Foreign Periodical Literature, January, 1833. See ante, p. 279. Review of Dana's Poeins and Prose Wri...« less