| A Study of Hawthorne Contributor(s): Lathrop, George Parsons (Author) |
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ISBN: 1975757289 ISBN-13: 9781975757281 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $14.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Non-classifiable - Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval - History |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.79 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. An honest report upon personal contact always has a value denied to the reviews of after-comers, yet the best criticism and biography is not always that of contemporaries. |