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where evil lurks
Discarding the ideas of wild and pervasive divine supervision,of animals with the souls of men and women, and how evil and villainy can exist in the world under such scrutiny, has long troubled humanity. The world may be short of … Continue reading
whiff of evil
…Dorian Grey and his diabolical bargain that Oscar Wilde wrote in 1890. Instead of growing old, he keeps a portrait of himself which does his ageing for him, as well as showing off all the marks of his increasing depravity. … Continue reading
copernicus: looking at motions of the moon
The Copernican Revolution. With modesty, Copernicus displaced man from the center of the universe… …Copernicus came from solid German merchant stock, but his uncle’s influence- Bishop Watzelrode undertook the education of his sister’s family when his brother-in-law died in 1483- … Continue reading
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Tagged Copernicus, Domenico Maria da Novara, Edgar Allan Poe, Lucas Watzelrode Ermland, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nicholas Copernicus, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ptolemy, Tycho Brahe
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twisting and shouting: father of singing poetry
A lot of shouting. Vachel Lindsay was certainly no Longfellow, no Whittier. What was the fellow trying to prove anyway? Lindsay could have told them. He thought of himself as an artistic originator whose “New Poetry” would, in short order, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Dylan, Edgar Allan Poe, Hazelton Spencer, Joel Spingarn, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pete Seeger, T.R. Hummer, Tuli Kupferberg, Vachel Lindsay, Vachel Lindsay Congo, William Blake, Woody Guthrie
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affordable pauper
by Art Chantry: these are books by “the peter pauper press”. they are small (4 1/2″ x 7 1/2″ x 3/8″). they are beautifully designed and letterpress printed, often sporting illustrations by some of the best illustrators of the era. … Continue reading
fauning the big try
Yet, at the height of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s powers, with a sounder preparation than any American contemporary for fictional tasks still uncompleted, he wrote no fiction to speak of. Like many American writers who followed him, he had come up to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bronson Alcott, Caravaggio, Edgar Allan Poe, Franklin Pierce, Harold Bloom, Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Marble Faun, Ralph Waldeau Enerson, The Scarlet Letter
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vulnerabilities
it is not hard to be convinced that Nathaniel Hawthorne was born to write in the manner of Dickens and Balzac. In The Blithedale Romance he did. There are gothic furbelows attached to the novel, also-spook stuff and mystifications to … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Trollope, Edgar Allan Poe, Harold Bloom, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Louis Vivin paintings, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
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something sad, terrific
Nathaniel Hawthorne was ten years away from Brook Farm, the socialist, utopian project, before he wrote the book The Blithedale Romance, from his observations there. By then, the success of The Scarlet Letter had justified his habit of looking at … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Trollope, Brook Farm, Brook Farm Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, D.H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Harold Bloom, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Jane Austen, Leo Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, Nicolas Poussin
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grotesque castaway: permanent alienation
After the success of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the most famous American writers. But in the twelve years following his graduation from college in 1825, he was the most invisible. He went back to his mother’s … Continue reading
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Tagged American literature, Brook Farm, Brook Farm Nathaniel Hawthorne, Byeon Hyeok, D.H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
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scarlet fever of moral torment
Yet for all its gloom and whisper of abominations, The Scarlet letter is among those great tales in which the spectrum of meanings runs unbroken from the clearest daylight into vibrations beyond either visions or rational interpretation. Those who wish … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Trollope, Bowdoin College, Byeon Hyeok, D.H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Franklin Pierce, Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Lillian Gish, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Puritanism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sigmund Freud
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