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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
the New England magazine, the Knickerbocker, and the Democratic Review. Twice-told tales came out in 1837; second volume of Twicetold tales (1845); Mosses from an old Manse (1846); The Scarlet letter (1850) ; The house of seven Gables (1851); The wonder book (1851) ; The Blithedale romance (1852) ; A campaign life qf Franklin Pierce (1852); and Tanglewood tales (1853) ; The marble Faun (1860); Our old home (1863). The unfinished works published after his death were The Dolliver romance, Septimius Felton and Dr. Grimshawe's secret. His American and English notebooks and French and Italian note-books were posthumously edited by his wife. During this time he occupied several government positions. Died at Plymouth, N. H., May 18, 1864. Hayne, Paul Hamilton Born in Charleston, S. C., Jan. 1, 1830. He graduated at the College of South Carolina and studied law, but gave up legal practice for literature, and was the editor of Russell's magazine and the Charleston Literary Gazette, co
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Short studies of American authors, Hawthorne. (search)
must, after all, be such a thing as literary art, and that he must represent one of the very highest types of artist. Through Hawthorne's journals we trace the mental impulses by which he first obtained his themes. Then in his unfinished Septimius Felton, fortunately unfinished for this purpose,--we see his plastic imagination at work in shaping the romance; we watch him trying one mode of treatment, then modifying it by another; always aiming at the main point, but sometimes pausing to elabre me, as I write, a photograph of one of Raphael's rough sketches, drawn on the back of a letter: there is a group of heads, then another group on a different scale; you follow the shifting mood of the artist's mind; and so it is in reading Septimius Felton. In all Hawthorne's completed works, the pencilling is rubbed out, and every trace of the preliminary labor has disappeared. One of the most characteristic of Hawthorne's literary methods is his habitual use of guarded under-statements a