WorkHenry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Spanish Student

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)

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Documented 1846

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  • 1846The Spanish StudentDemonstrated

    “The Spanish Student might also be acted, though with no great effect. All the means of action The shapeless masses, the materials.”

    Papers on Literature and Art · now before me

    142-line excerpt range with dramatic dialogue quoted at length from The Spanish Student.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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The Modern Drama

“The Modern Drama”
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“Somewhere betwixt these and the mere acting plays stand such as Maturin’s Bertram, Talfourd’s Ion, and (now before me) Longfellow’s Spanish Student.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p123

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p123; page given is to the 1869 reprint.