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Early criticism
or biography of Hawthorne
On this page are links to Hawthorne criticism before 75 years ago, and
thus now in the public domain and not under copyright any longer. Most are
local to this site.
Another page lists links to more recent criticism
online elsewhere.
- Longfellow reviews Twice-Told Tales, July, 1837
- Edgar Allan Poe reviews Twice-Told Tales, April, 1842
- Edgar Allan Poe reviews Twice-Told Tales, May, 1842
- Edgar Allan Poe reviews Hawthorne's Tales, 1847
- James Russell Lowell, from A Fable for Critics, 1848
- "Hawthorne and His Mosses," by Herman Melville, 1850
- or
another copy at UVirginia
- Letters from Melville to Hawthorne
- A review of The Scarlet Letter by
Dr. George B. Loring, 1850
- A review of The Scarlet Letter by Rev. A. C. Coxe, 1851
- "Nathaniel Hawthorne," a chapter by
George William Curtis, first published 1853, in G. P. Putnam's
Homes of American Authors.
- Longfellow, graduate with Hawthorne from Bowdoin
College, and his lifelong friend and fellow-author, wrote an
elegy for Hawthorne's
funeral, May 24, 1864, at Sleepy Hollow cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts.
- The Marble Faun, by
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- a classic
review by James Russell Lowell from the April, 1860, issue of
The Atlantic Monthly
- Yesterdays with Authors, by James T. Fields,
1871. Chapter 3 is devoted to the publisher's
recollections of Hawthorne. Since the chapter is so long, we've divided it into
five unnamed parts: one,
two, three,
four, and five.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, a review by Henry James, the
Nation, 1872
- Hawthorne, by Henry James,
London, 1879
- W. D. Howells reviews
Hawthorne by Henry James, 1880
- from Anthony Trollope, "The Genius of Nathaniel
Hawthorne", 1879
- The Scarlet Letter, by
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- a
review by Julian Hawthorne from the April, 1886, issue of The Atlantic Monthly
-
Horatio Bridge:
Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne. New York: Harper and
Brothers 1893. (we gave up on the UConn copy and scanned our own)
- Emerson and Hawthorne, 1887
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, by Henry James, 1896
- W. D. Howells visited Concord in 1860 to meet
Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Emerson (he passed on Alcott), and published in 1900 a
retrospective account in the first part of his
Literary Friends and Acquaintance.
- Introduction to The Scarlet Letter,
by Katherine Lee Bates, Professor of English, Wellesley College, 1902
- Henry James on Hawthorne, 1904
- Henry James revisited Concord and Salem in
the fall of 1904 and published
a chapter
in The American Scene on them in 1907.
-
"Imperishable Fiction: An Inquiry into the Short Life of the 'Best Sellers' Reveals the Methods which
Brought into Being the Novels that Endure",
Richard Le Gallienne, Munsey's Magazine, New York, 1914, Volume 51
- Notice of publication of
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
The Contemporary Reviews,
Idol, John and Jones, Buford (eds.), 1994, 6 1/8 X 9 1/4, 557 pp.,
Hardback, 0-521-39142-3, $100.00
- Cambridge
History of English and Amercian Literature Vol. 16, Part II,
1907-1921 (at the Bartleby Library online). One chapter devoted to Hawthorne, and other
references scattered throughout, such as to his writings for
children.
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