WorkHenry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Spanish Student: A Play in Three Acts

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)

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Documented 1843–1846

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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. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“She reviewed them, with John Sterling's Strafford and Henry Taylor's Philip Van Artevelde, in Dial 4 (1844):307-49 [Hudspeth fn.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Hudspeth identified the plays Emerson sent Fuller on 5 November as including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Spanish Student, William Henry Smith's Athelwold, and J.W.

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Papers on Literature and Art

p113
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“(now before me) Longfellow's Spanish Student.”

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