Tag Archives: Franklin Pierce

fauning the big try

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Dave

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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scarlet fever of moral torment

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | 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 | Leave a comment

furious circumstances: reckless vaults of imagination

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Dave

In the middle of 1849, during a summer of torrid heat in Salem, Massachusetts, the contending forces in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s life were drawing into battle formation, as for a civil war ling in preparation. His mother lay dying in a … Continue reading →