Collected Poems of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Rare Nineteenth-Century American Verse of Memory, Moral Shadow, Nature, and Puritan LegacyBy Nathaniel Hawthorne
Length7h 3m
About this audiobook
Collected Poems of Nathaniel Hawthorne gathers the comparatively rare verse of an author celebrated chiefly for his romances and tales, revealing a lyrical intelligence attuned to memory, moral shadow, nature, and the ambiguities of inward life. These poems often bear the marks of early nineteenth-century American literary culture: echoes of Romantic meditation, neoclassical restraint, and the moral seriousness that would later deepen into the symbolic art of The Scarlet Letter and Twice-Told Tales. Hawthorne, born in Salem in 1804, inherited a fraught Puritan legacy, including ancestral connections to the Salem witch trials, which profoundly shaped his imagination. Though his genius found its fullest expression in fiction, his poems illuminate the apprenticeship of a writer fascinated by solitude, guilt, historical memory, and the unstable boundary between innocence and experience. They offer glimpses of the sensibility behind his darker prose masterpieces. This volume is recommended for readers seeking a fuller understanding of Hawthorne's artistic formation. Scholars, students, and admirers of American Romanticism will find in these poems not merely curiosities, but revealing companion pieces to one of the nineteenth century's most searching moral imaginations.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenrePoetry
Length7 hrs 3 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 27, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Collected Poems of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Annotated)
26Hawthorne:A Fable for Criticsby James Russell Lowell
2Introduction
27Introduction
3Author Biography
28Griswold
4Historical Context
29Emerson
5Synopsis (Selection)
30Thoreau
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6Introduction
31Alcott
7Biographical sketch by George Parsons Lathrop
32Brownson
8I.
33Willis
9II.
34Parker
10III.
35Bryant
11IV.
36Whittier
12V.
37Dana
13Poetry:
38Neal
14Poems By Hawthorne:
39Hawthorne
15Address to the Moon
40Cooper
16The Darken'd Veil
41British vs. American
17Earthly Pomp
42Abolitionism and Fuller
18Forms of Heroes
43Halleck
19Go to the Grave
44Briggs
20My Low and Humble Home
45Poe and Longfellow
21The Ocean
46Child
22Poems 'On Hawthorne':
47Irving
23Power Against Power by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
48Judd
24At Hawthorne's Grave by Charlotte Friske Bates
49Massachusetts
25Hawthorne by H. W. Longfellow
50Holmes
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