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Gazette itself--beginning with April 1, 1824--which most impress the student of early American literature. There will always be a charm in turning over the pages where one sees, again and again, the youthful poems of Bryant and of Longfellow placed side by side and often put together on the same page, the young undergraduate's effusions being always designated by his initials and Bryant's with a perhaps more dignified
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Cambridge edition of his poems. We find thus in the
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Literary Gazette, linked together on the same page, Longfellow's
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Autumnal Nightfall and Bryant's
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Song of the Grecian Amazon; Longfellow's
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Italian Scenery and Bryant's
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To a Cloud; Longfellow's
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Lunatic Girl and Bryant's
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The Murdered Traveller. {4} How the older poet was impressed by the work of the younger we cannot tell, but it is noticeable that in editing a volume of selected American poetry not long after, he assigns to Longfellow, as will presently be seen, a very small space. It is to be remembered that Bryant had previously published in book form, in 1821, his earliest poems, and the
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Literary Gazette itself, in its very first number, had pronounced him the first
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Our pleasure was equalled by our surprise, it says,
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Though the English critics say of him, it continues,