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...his latest work, Transformation, he reiterates as his excuse for laying the scene in Italy, that " no author without a trial can conceive of the difficulty...antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor any thing but a commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my...

...where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, ho picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight,...

...real Romance. Even with his exuberant imagination, this was no light task, as his own words declare. " Dy]b @* Z L reca 8 ' T ׽!s Ԓ h ) A bĸ This inevitable difficulty, once conquered by Hawthorne, has seemed less formidable to later romancers....

...real Romance. Even with his exuberant imagination, this was no light task, as his own words declare. "No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...as is happily the case with my dear native land." This inevitable difficulty, once conquered by Hawthorne, has seemed less formidable to later romancers....

...the terrible human struggle over slavery, Hawthorne wrote calmly in the Preface to The Marble Faun, " No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor any thing but a commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my...

...a romance about a country where j there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no pic- i turesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity,...happily the case with my dear native land. It will j be very long, I trust, before romance-writers may find congenial and easily handled themes, either...

...where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. J It will be very long, I trust, before romance-wrfters may find congenial and easily handled themes,...

...The Marble Faun he says, speaking of the difficulty an American author has in finding such materials: "No author without a trial can conceive of the difficulty...commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight. Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wall-flowers need ruin to make them grow." This background or...

...Brook Farm experience, were passed, as he himself tells us, in a country where there were ' no shadows, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy...commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight,' — in a town and a society, which had and could have nothing — or almost nothing — of those special...