“Miss Frothingham’s translation is something to be glad of: it lends
itself kindly to perusal, and it presents Goethe’s charming poem in the
metre of the original.... It is not a poem which could be profitably
used in an argument for the enlargement of the sphere of woman: it
teaches her subjection, indeed, from the lips of a beautiful girl, which
are always so fatally convincing; but it has its charm, nevertheless,
and will serve at least for an agreeable picture of an age when the
ideal woman was a creature around which grew the beauty and comfort and
security of home.”—_Atlantic Monthly._
“The poem itself is bewitching. Of the same metre as Longfellow’s
‘Evangeline,’ its sweet and measured cadences carry the reader onward
with a real pleasure as he becomes more and more absorbed in this
descriptive wooing song. It is a sweet volume to read aloud in a select
circle of intelligent friends.”—_Providence Press._
“Miss Frothingham has done a good service, and done it well, in
translating this famous idyl, which has been justly called ‘one of the
most faultless poems of modern times.’ Nothing can surpass the
simplicity, tenderness, and grace of the original, and these have been
well preserved in Miss Frothingham’s version. Her success is worthy of
the highest praise, and the mere English reader can scarcely fail to
read the poem with the same delight with which it has always been read
by those familiar with the German. Its charming pictures of domestic
life, the strength and delicacy of its characterization, the purity of
tone and ardent love of country which breathe through it, must always
make it one of the most admired of Goethe’s works.”—_Boston Christian
Register._
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