The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. II., No. 12, November, 1836Various
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The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. II., No. 12, November, 1836
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American literature -- 19th century -- Periodicals
The sun that sets will rise again,
But I can never see
His rays upon my native plain,
Nor _friends_ to welcome me.
Adieu, forever! who can tell
The sorrow of this last farewell?
But fate ordains, and I _must_ be
An exile from my home and _thee_.
WALLADMOR.
Sir W. Scott’s reputation prompted some German publishers to make a
bold attempt at imposition. A work was announced under the title of
Walladmor, and professing to be a free translation from the English of
Sir Walter. It was a miserable failure.
TRAGEDIES OF SILVIO PELLICO.
BY MRS. E. F. ELLET.
The misfortunes and sufferings of this individual, as related in the
memoirs of his “Imprisonments,” published not long since, have excited
in Europe and in this country an interest in his fate. There are few
of our readers, we think, who do not remember the captive at
Spielberg, and have not been moved by the simple and touching account
of his calamities, and the truly philanthropic and christian spirit
exhibited under them. Many of the tragedies we propose to notice were
composed in prison, and repeated to his fellow-captives, to beguile
the dreary hours of confinement, when perhaps the sufferer looked
forward to death alone as the means of his liberation. These dramas
have, therefore, an interest apart from their intrinsic merit, and
would invite attention, even were they destitute of greater claims.
But the name of Silvio Pellico, before his unfortunate arrest, was
known throughout Italy as one of the best of her living dramatists;
and his subsequent pieces have detracted in no way from his literary
fame. This is great praise in itself, when we consider the high
reputation acquired by his first effort, “_Francesca da Rimini_.”
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