Emerson in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, FRonald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson University of Iowa Press, 26 feb 2003 - 262 pagina's At his death, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was universally acknowledged in America and England as “the Great Romancer.” Novels such as The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables and stories published in such collections as Twice-Told Tales continue to capture the minds and imaginations of readers and critics to this day. Harder to capture, however, were the character and personality of the man himself. So few of the essays that appeared in the two years after his death offered new insights into his life, art, and reputation that Hawthorne seemed fated to premature obscurity or, at least, permanent misrepresentation. This first collection of personal reminiscences by those who knew Hawthorne intimately or knew about him through reliable secondary sources rescues him from these confusions and provides the real human history behind the successful writer. Remembrances from Elizabeth Peabody, Sophia Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bronson Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, and twenty others printed in Hawthorne in His Own Time follow him from his childhood in Salem, through his years of initial literary obscurity, his days in the Boston and Salem Custom Houses, his service as U.S. Consul to Liverpool and Manchester and his life in the Anglo-American communities at Rome and Florence, to his late years as the “Great Romancer.” In their enlightening introduction, editors Ronald Bosco and Jillmarie Murphy assess the postmortem building of Hawthorne’s reputation as well as his relationship to the prominent Transcendentalists, spiritualists, Swedenborgians, and other personalities of his time. By clarifying the sentimental associations between Hawthorne’s writings and his actual personality and moving away from the critical review to the personal narrative, these artful and perceptive reminiscences tell the private and public story of a remarkable life. |
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... head is high and well - formed , his nose very large , his chin strong .... He is of slender figure , more than medium height , head small , shoulders remarkably sloping .... In manner he is reticent , in general conversation he is not ...
... head is high and well - formed , his nose very large , his chin strong .... He is of slender figure , more than medium height , head small , shoulders remarkably sloping .... In manner he is reticent , in general conversation he is not ...
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... head rather than his heart - a sort of theoretic geniality that ( as Mazzini would say ) " leaves me cold . " He is perhaps the most elevated man I ever saw - but it is the elevation of a reed — run all to hight without taking breadth ...
... head rather than his heart - a sort of theoretic geniality that ( as Mazzini would say ) " leaves me cold . " He is perhaps the most elevated man I ever saw - but it is the elevation of a reed — run all to hight without taking breadth ...
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... head was quite small in that dimension . It was long and narrow , but lofty , almost symmetrical , and of more nearly equal breadth in its anterior and posterior regions than many or most heads . His shoulders sloped so much as to be ...
... head was quite small in that dimension . It was long and narrow , but lofty , almost symmetrical , and of more nearly equal breadth in its anterior and posterior regions than many or most heads . His shoulders sloped so much as to be ...
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Amos Bronson Alcott A Visit to Emerson at Concord in 1837 | 1 |
Ellis Gray Loring A Visit from Emerson in 1838 | 10 |
Richard Frederick Fuller The Younger Generation in 1840 from | 16 |
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