Dead Poets Society founder visits bards' graves Nov 1, 2009
For example, he placed a scarlet "H" on the tombstone of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who penned "The Scarlet Letter." At Longfellow's memorial, he set fire to a portrait of the poet's second wife to underscore her fiery death, which tormented the poet and inspired "The Cross of Snow.". Skold encourages others to take up his cause on All Saint's Day by going to graveyards, preferably during the day, to document poets' graves and read their poetry. (AZCentral -- News)
Ghost Stories by Reactionaries Oct 28, 2009
Next up is Nathaniel Hawthorne s allegory Young Goodman Brown, in which a Salem Puritan finds or does he. that There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. (The American Conservative)
Improving SAT Vocabulary with Class... Oct 24, 2009
Kaplan produces such amended novels as: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott [Kaplan Publishing, April 4, 2006], Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain [Kaplan Publishing, April 4, 2006], and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne [Kaplan Publishing, November 1, 2006. Prestwick House leaves its classic novels intact while Kaplan abridges the novels it uses. (Suite101.com)
John Brown's complex legacy still divides Oct 18, 2009
Nathaniel Hawthorne declared, "Nobody was ever more justly hanged.". Brown's body still lies a-moulderin' in the grave in upstate New York, where he confounded even other abolitionists by treating freed slaves as social equals. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Summary of The Minister's Black Vei... Oct 17, 2009
A Synopsis of Nathaniel Hawthornes Ambiguous Short Story. A summary of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, The Minister's Black Veil, which is subtitled A Parable ... It is important to note that the symbol of the veil in The Minister s Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne has a precedent in the story of a Mr. Joseph Moody. (Suite101.com)
At last, Poe gets a fitting send-off Oct 10, 2009
Of all the great classical American writers of the 19th century - Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne to name but three - Poe had the most hapless existence. Poor Edgar Allan Poe; of them all he was the poorest; his life was very precarious,'' Mr Rachman said. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Curse threat spurs selectmen to vote Oct 9, 2009
"As selectmen soon learned, Parker's ancestors were not your "typical" relatives. "You should know that I have witches in my family, two of whom were hung as such on Sept. 22, 1692, in Salem, Mass. " he said.According to Parker, the names of the executed were Alice and Mary Parker. Additionally, Parker said, his late wife, Sara A. Parker, was "a direct lineal descendant of Susannah Martin," who "received the same ugly fate" as Alice and Mary on July 19, 1692.If selectmen choose not to include... (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Celebrate Poe with the Salem Theatre Company Oct 9, 2009
The Salem Theatre Company presents adaptations of The Tell-Tale Heart and another creepy tale by Edgar Allan Poe, plus Wives of the Dead by Salem s Nathaniel Hawthorne. The production celebrates the 200th anniversary of Poe s birth. (Boston Globe)
The Obama snap-back Oct 7, 2009
The 19th-century author Nathaniel Hawthorne warned of the perverse effects of grand schemes: "We miss the good we sought, and do the good we little cared for." For Obama, proving that we live in a center-right country presumably isn't a "good" at all, but he's done it with a finality that the late sociologist Seymour Lipset -- a student of America's cussedly right-leaning attitudes -- might envy. Obama's liberal grandiosity has reminded people why they tend to be conservative, something they... (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
The literary lion who hated us, and why we love him anyway Sep 20, 2009
As the American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne once put it, admiringly, Sam Johnson fought his way through the world by himself. A self-made man in a country run by aristocrats, Johnson was a pragmatist and common-sense philosopher who steered away from grand theoretical systems. (Boston Globe)
Five Alternatives to Mark Levin Sep 17, 2009
In an era when it was often taken for granted that America was a fundamentally liberal nation, a creation of the Enlightenment and revolution, Kirk argued that there was a persistent, if diversified, conservatism running from the English statesman Edmund Burke through the American Revolution, the Constitution, both the Federalist John Adams and the Jeffersonian John Randolph of Roanoke, through John C. Calhoun and Nathaniel Hawthorne all the way to such 20th-century thinkers as Irving Babbitt,... (The American Conservative)
Witchcraft in the American Colonies Sep 7, 2009
In Nathaniel Hawthorne s 1835 story Young Goodman Brown, the pious Goodman Brown ventures into the haunted forest to converse with the devil ... Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown, Great American Short Stories edited by Wallace and Mary Stegner (New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1957). (Suite101.com)
Safina was on red alert Sep 2, 2009
Too bad Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter, isn t still around. He might write a novel about friendly, hard-working Dinara Safina s adventures on the tennis court, and call it Painting the Town Scarlet With My First Major. (Boston Globe)
Richard Poirier; literary critic and writer who founded Library of America Aug 22, 2009
With grants from the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the nonprofit venture began publishing in May 1982, with works by Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Walt Whitman. Nearly 200 volumes collecting the works of Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, James Baldwin, Philip Roth, and other writers have been published to date. (Boston Globe)
What does it take to be a tour guide on the Battle Green? Aug 21, 2009
Riders also get a brief literary tour of Concord, as the bus breezes by the homes of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott and Henry David Thoreau, as well as the Old Manse, where Nathaniel Hawthorne lived for some time. As the tour gets to Concord, it stops at North Bridge for a more in-depth lecture from the guide on the fighting between the Americans and British troops. (Lexington Minuteman, MA)
Literary ghost stories Aug 2, 2009
The early days are represented by Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and Washington Irving. The Victorian and Edwardian eras bring Henry James, Edith Wharton, Ambrose Bierce and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. (Erie Times-News, PA)
Useless knowledge: Are you well read? Jul 17, 2009
Nathaniel Hawthorne; 16. "The Sun Also Rises"; 17. (Montana Standard, MT)
Literary Boston neighborhoods Jul 5, 2009
"The car stopped [at Allston Station, now the Sports Depot] and I got off, into the middle of my shadow. A road crossed the track. There was a wooden marquee with an old man eating something out of a paper bag, and then the car was out of hearing too. The road went into trees, where it would be shady, but the June foliage in New England not much thicker than April at home, I could see a smoke stack. I turned my back to it, tramping my shadow into the dust. BRIGHTON 2. "American Note-Book" by... (Boston Globe)
CostaLiving: Newspapers should make noise Jul 2, 2009
Writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, writing in 1835, came across some old newspapers and had this to say about them. Here is a volume of what were once newspapers each on a small half-sheet, yellow and time-stained, of a coarse fabric, and imprinted with a rude old type. (Lincoln Journal, MA)
From Illinois to Mars and Back Jun 23, 2009
He is a pastoral moralist who jokes that he eats metaphor for breakfast, lunch, and dinner; his line of descent has little to do with Jules Verne or Robert Heinlein and instead can be traced to the Nathaniel Hawthorne of Rappaccini s Daughter and Young Goodman Brown. Like Hawthorne, he has Salem connections: in 1692, Mary Bradbury was convicted of witchcraft, though she escaped hanging. (The American Conservative)
Short Story Summer Reading Jun 4, 2009
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) wrote this story about a young Puritan who journeys through a deep, dark forest ... Suite 101's Melissa Howard has analyzed this classic story in "Good & Evil in Young Goodman Brown: Nathaniel Hawthorne on Guilt Versus Innocence.". (Suite101.com)
A Good Woman Found May 25, 2009
Only several years ago, she was honored by inclusion in the Library of America series, cheek by jowl with Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton. (On the other hand, also represented in this American pantheon are nonentities like Dawn Powell and James Agee, as well as the atrocious Philip Roth. (The American Conservative)
Tewksbury High School's top 10 seniors honored May 13, 2009
Her favorite authors include: Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flannnery O Connor, Stephen King, Jodi Piccoult, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. With dedication, leadership and heart, Kaitlin has proudly contributed to the TMHS Freshman Softball team. (Tewksbury Advocate, MA)
Time to Write, When to Write, Where... May 11, 2009
Nathaniel Hawthorne also found inspiration at night. In The Custom-House Introductory to The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne advised writers of fiction, or romances as he termed them. (Suite101.com)
Council on Aging Notes Apr 30, 2009
At 11 a.m. on Friday, May 8, he group will discuss three short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Young Goodman Brown," "The Minister's Black Veil," and "The Great Stone Face". All are welcome to join. (Belmont Citizen Herald, MA)
Michael Winship: Abraham Lincoln's legacy 144 years later Apr 11, 2009
Lincoln was assassinated 144 years ago on Good Friday, and so Waterston is appearing on Bill Moyers Journal this week to read excerpts reflecting the ways in which Lincoln s image has evolved and has been interpreted by great American writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman to Delmore Schwartz and Allen Ginsberg. Featured with Waterston is historian Harold Holzer, who has written, co-written or edited 22 books about Lincoln, including The Lincoln Anthology, published by the Library of... (Medfield Press, MA)
A decent proposal at Concord's Old Manse Apr 7, 2009
Historic Site Manager Tom Beardsley said the Manse s romantic mystique dates back to 1842, when Nathaniel Hawthorne and his bride, Sophia, showed up at the house Ralph Waldo Emerson s granddaddy built and gave them a garden as a wedding present. And all the rest of their lives, Nathaniel and Sophia referred to the three-and-a-half-year honeymoon they had while they lived here, Beardsley said. (Concord Journal, MA)
Danvers native Ernie Roberts remembered as a leader in journalism as a Boston Globe sports editor Mar 27, 2009
The town of Danvers may not boast a literary giant the stature of Salem s Nathaniel Hawthorne or Beverly s recently deceased John Updike, though we townies justifiably claim that famed poet John Greenleaf Whittier was one of us when he spent several summers at Oak Knoll on Summer Street in the late 1800s. But we can boast proudly as one of our own from his infancy one of American sports journalism s finest writers and editors in Ernie Roberts. (Danvers Herald, MA)
O-T Famous American Literature Mar 27, 2009
Q Questioning Social Structure in The Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Although like much historical fiction, both works were written as a means of reflection on parallels to more modern times, The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) and The Crucible (1953) by Arthur Miller (1915-2005) are both set against the backdrop of the seventeenth century settlements of Puritan Massachusetts, exhibiting some of the perceptions of that era in... (Suite101.com)
Teaching comics with a straight face Mar 13, 2009
While there are more than 100 years of critical writing about novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, compared with maybe 100 peer-reviewed articles about Art Spielgalman's Maus, this emerging field already faces the danger of becoming too cluttered. Ironically, the same books that helped legitimize the medium Maus, an acclaimed book about the Holocaust, or Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, an autobiography about growing up during the Iranian revolution might prove responsible for its stagnation. (Globe and Mail)
Flannery O'Connor -- quiet life, disturbing fiction Mar 9, 2009
"One hundred years later, Flannery O'Connor, like Hawthorne, grounding her strange fiction in her homeland, the South, felt a kinship with the Yankee writer.Speaking on the topic "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction" in 1960, O'Connor cited Hawthorne for his ability to raise fiction from the ordinariness of life and "steer it in the direction of poetry. "For both writers, the poetry came from God, but different ones: Hawthorne's was a Calvinist creation, O'Connor's a Roman Catholic... (Sioux City Journal)
Students call focus on protest a distraction from 'Laramie Project' message Mar 6, 2009
This year, Endslow focused on dramas about people who don t fit into societal norms, producing The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne s story of an unwed mother in Puritan-era Salem, earlier in the season. The Laramie Project fits under that thematic umbrella, Endslow said. (Reading Advocate, MA)
Singer gives everything to music Mar 5, 2009
Mr. Brown, who takes his stage name from a Nathaniel Hawthorne short story about the duality of man, said music is about performance and persona in addition to the songs themselves. "I definitely would like people to feel like they have gotten the full show," the soft-spoken artist said. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Defending poor Franklin Pierce Feb 19, 2009
Nathaniel Hawthorne, a friend of Franklins referred to Jane as "that deaths head." She died of tuberculosis in 1863, never fully recovering from the death of her children. And finally, what was the poor guy to do as President. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Chamber Chorale features music for lovers at Valentine’s concerts Feb 8, 2009
Sophia Peabody to Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1839, reflecting on their wonderful relationship between equals before they were married. Catherine of Aragon to her former husband King Henry VIII in 1535 while imprisoned. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
The omnivores remember Feb 8, 2009
Famous literary figures make contributions to these pages, among them Nathaniel Hawthorne, Langston Hughes, and Gertrude Stein, pitter-pattering away in her faux-naif manner ("Well there are really quite a number of things to make different kinds of things to eat and everybody likes it all very much"). Finally, O'Neill's engaging, knowledgeable little prefaces for each writer are excellent contributions just on their own. (Boston Globe)
Lincoln Memorial a temple of respect, hope Feb 8, 2009
Walt Whitman saw a "deep latent sadness in his expression." Nathaniel Hawthorne was struck by his "sallow, queer, sagacious visage, with the homely human sympathies that warmed it.". Sainthood began with Lincoln's murder and evolved over the decades, in apocryphal stories from ex-slaves of Lincoln visitations, in speeches that referred to him as a Christ-like soldier for freedom and nation. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Seeking Lincoln, and finding the Lincoln Memorial Feb 7, 2009
Walt Whitman saw a "deep latent sadness in his expression." Nathaniel Hawthorne was struck by his "sallow, queer, sagacious visage, with the homely human sympathies that warmed it.". 1. (International Herald Tribune)
