Tag Archives: Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter

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 →

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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 →