...ossible from that conflict which kept Hawthorne all winter, by his wife's testimony, with a knot in his forehead while he was writing The Scarlet Letter. It is always to be borne in mind that, as Mr. Scudder has pointed out in his admirable paper on Longfellow and his Art, the young poet was really preparing himself in Europe for his literary work as well as for his professional work, and half consciousl...