'Hawthorne': The Surveyor of Customs
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By BROOKE ALLEN
Published: October 5, 2003
A perpetual twilight reigned over Nathaniel Hawthorne's spirit,
according to Henry James, who put it well: Hawthorne's was essentially
a negative, elusive character. This negativity -- not pessimism, for
which it was often mistaken -- distinguished him from his New England
peers, an extroverted crowd that included Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Margaret Fuller and Bronson Alcott. Hawthorne was "morbidly shy and
reserved," according to one friend; another admitted: "I love
Hawthorne, I admire him; but I do not know him. He lives in a
mysterious world of thought and imagination which he never permits me
to enter."
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