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The Waif (1845) and
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The Estray (1846), the latter title being originally planned as
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Estrays in the Forest, and he records a visit to the college library, in apparent search for the origin of the phrase. His next volume of original poems, however, was
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The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems, published December 23, 1845, the contents having already been partly printed in
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Graham's Magazine, and most of them in the illustrated edition of his poems published in Philadelphia. The theme of the volume appears to have been partly suggested by some words in a letter to Freiligrath which seem to make the leading poem, together with that called
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Nuremberg, a portion of that projected series of travel-sketches which had haunted Longfellow ever since
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Outre-Mer.
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The Norman Baron was the result of a passage from Thierry, sent him by an unknown correspondent. One poem was suggested by a passage in Andersen's
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Story of my Life, and one was written at Boppard on the Rhine. All the rest were distinctly American in character or origin. Another poem,
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To the Driving Cloud, the chief of the Omaha Indians, was his first effort at hexameters and prepared the way for
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Evangeline. His translation of the
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Children of the Lord's Supper had also served by way of preparation; and he had happened upon a specimen in
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Blackwood's Magazine of the hexameter translation of the
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Iliad which had impressed him very much. He even tried a passage of
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Evangeline
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Of the longer poems of our chief singer, I should not hesitate to select 'Evangeline' as the masterpiece, and I think the general verdict of opinion would confirm my choice.... From the first line of the poem, from its first words, we read as we would float down a broad and placid river, murmuring softly against its banks, heaven over it, and the glory of the unspoiled wilderness all around. The words
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This is the forest primeval have become as familiar, he thinks, as the
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Arma virumque cano which opened Virgil's
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Æneid, and he elsewhere calls the poem
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The subject was first suggested to Longfellow by Hawthorne, who had heard it from his friend, the Rev. H. L. Conolly, and the outline of it will be found in
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The American Note-Books
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Evangeline, that even the proper names introduced under guidance of his rhythmical ear spread to other countries and were taken up and preserved as treasures in themselves. Sumner writes from England to Longfellow that the Hon. Mrs. Norton, herself well known in literature, had read
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Evangeline,