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"There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare
That you hardly at first see the strength that is there;
A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet,
So earnest, so graceful, so lithe and so fleet,
Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet;

James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell (1819–1891), U.S. poet. A Fable for Critics. . .

Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.

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