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Hyperion, and buried himself in
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He met many men who interested him, Schlosser, Gervinus, and Mittermaier, and also Bryant, the poet, from his own country, whom he saw for the first time. An added sorrow came to him in the death of his brother-in-law and dearest friend, George W. Pierce,
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He the young and strong, as he afterwards wrote in his
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Footsteps of Angels; but in accordance with the advice of his friend Ticknor he absorbed himself in intellectual labor, taking the direction of a careful study of German literature. This he traced from its foundations down to Jean Paul Richter, who was for him, as for many other Americans of the same period, its high-water mark, even to the exclusion of Goethe. It will be remembered that Longfellow's friend, Professor Felton, translated not long after, and very likely with Longfellow's aid or counsel, Menzel's
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History of German Literature,
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Christian Examiner, in which he pronounced him far inferior to Voltaire,
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He says of him farther,
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He imitates, he reproduces, he does not create and he does not build up.... His chances at popularity are diminishing. Twaddle will not pass long for wisdom. The active spirit of movement and progress finds in his works little that attracts sympathy. {34} It is to be remembered in the same connection that Longfellow, in 1837, wrote to his friend, George W. Greene, of
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Jean Paul Richter, the most magnificent of the German prose writers,
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Hyperion was laid. He called it