an army of mice scales the walls of the tower on the Rhine where the Bishop has taken refuge and devour him, and not with kisses. [Christopher] Irmscher plausibly suggests that Longfellow transforms the Mäuseturm of Bingen, besieged by "the patter of little feet", into a "Bluebeard-like fortress" in which the possessive father wishes to imprison his daughters.from Times Literary Supplement: Longfellow's neglect
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