. One year course in English and American literature; an introduction to the chief authors in English and American literature, with reading lists and references for further study. teof his, but not an especial friend; Horatio Bridge and Franklin Pierce were his inti-mate companions. After graduation Hawthornereturned to Salem and lived alife of strange seclusion. Heread or wrote much of the day,and at night wandered aboutthe town or on the felt that he had the powerto become a writer, and hepracticed his art as no other ofour authors has done. Fortwelve years he wrote, burningmost
. One year course in English and American literature; an introduction to the chief authors in English and American literature, with reading lists and references for further study. teof his, but not an especial friend; Horatio Bridge and Franklin Pierce were his inti-mate companions. After graduation Hawthornereturned to Salem and lived alife of strange seclusion. Heread or wrote much of the day,and at night wandered aboutthe town or on the felt that he had the powerto become a writer, and hepracticed his art as no other ofour authors has done. Fortwelve years he wrote, burningmost of his work as few stories and sketches wereall that he published, and for these he received little payand no reputation. He says of this period, speaking ofthe room he used as a study: Here I sat a long, longtime, waiting patiently for the world to know me, andsometimes wondering why it did not know me sooner, orwhether it would ever know me at all. In 1836 his sketches and stories were gathered into abook, with the title Twice-Told Tales, The publisher wasso doubtful about the venture that Hawthornes friendBridge had to guarantee him against loss. The book was. <sfez%r<su<.J^ J%&4rZ£*?&4. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 197 not a losing venture, nor was it a success. Longfellowwrote a generous review of it, and Poe praised it in anothermagazine and predicted the authors success. Yet thepublic was indifferent. Hawthorne now held for a short time a position in theCustom House at Boston, and later joined the famousBrook Farm community. This was a group of enthusias-tic people, literary and otherwise, who bought a farm nearRoxbury, Mass., and set up a community where all shouldlabor together, sharing alike in the results of their labor,and carrying on literary and philosophical discussions inthe intervals of farm work. A few months of this sufficedfor Hawthorne. He wrote in his diary: Is it a praise-worthy matter that I have spent five golden months in pro-viding food fo
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