The American Renaissance Gets Hot & Steamy
Ellie and I laughed about this exerpt just the other day. The Author is VERY PASSIONATE about Hawthorne:
"But I already feel that this Hawthorne has droped genminous seeds into my soul. He expands and deepns down, the more I contemplate him; and further, and further, shoots his strong New England roots into the hot soil of my Southern Soul"
-Wilson, J.C. The Hawthorne and Melville
Hawthorne and His Mosses By a Virginian Spending July in Vermont July friendship
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That whole essay is one of the most bizarrely adulatory things I've ever read in my life-- supposedly written four days after he met Hawthorne. What do you suppose H. made of it? If I were him, I'd be scared ever to see Melville again. Unless, of course...
By the way, these !%&# questions are kicking my ---. How about you?
-- Ellie
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