EBOOK, A STUDY OF HAWTHORNE ***
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A STUDY OF HAWTHORNE
BY
GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP.
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CONTENTS.
I. POINT OF VIEW
II. SALEM
III. BOYHOOD.--COLLEGE DAYS.--FANSHAWE
IV. TWILIGHT OF THE TWICE-TOLD TALES
V. AT BOSTON AND BROOK FARM
VI. THE OLD MANSE
VII. THE SCARLET LETTER.
VIII. LENOX AND CONCORD: PRODUCTIVE PERIOD
IX. ENGLAND AND ITALY
X. THE LAST ROMANCE
XI. PERSONALITY
XII. POE, IRVING, HAWTHORNE
XIII. THE Loss AND THE GAIN
APPENDIX I.
APPENDIX II.
APPENDIX III.
INDEX
A STUDY OF HAWTHORNE.
I.
POINT OF VIEW.
This book was not designed as a biography, but is rather a portrait.
And, to speak more carefully still, it is not so much this, as my
conception of what a portrait of Hawthorne should be. For I cannot write
with the authority of one who had known him and had been formally
intrusted with the task of describing his life. On the other hand, I do
not enter upon this attempt as a mere literary performance, but have
been assisted in it by an inward impulse, a consciousness of sympathy
with the subject, which I may perhaps consider a sort of inspiration. My
guide has been intuition, confirmed and seldom confuted by research.
Perhaps it is even a favoring fact that I should never have seen Mr.
Hawthorne; a personality so elusive as his may possibly yield its traits
more readily to one who can never obtrude actual intercourse between
himself and the mind he is meditating upon.
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