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Hawthorne's wife, daughter reburied
Associated Press ^
| Mon Jun 26, 2006
| KEN MAGUIRE
Posted on 06/27/2006 8:08:24 AM PDT by presidio9
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posted on
06/27/2006 8:08:28 AM PDT
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
I've never understood the appeal of Hawthorne's starchy prose and tin ear for dialogue. If Henry James hadn't propped him up at the right time I wonder if he would be remembered at all.
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posted on
06/27/2006 8:10:49 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: presidio9
Thanks for posting this, kind of neat, having been to Sleepy Hollow Cemetary a few times. Lots of great American Writers buried there
To: presidio9
Never knew there really was a Sleepy Hollow.
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posted on
06/27/2006 8:12:38 AM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: Borges
"Our finest lady writer." - Ezra Pound on Henry James
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posted on
06/27/2006 8:12:44 AM PDT
by
wideawake
("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
To: presidio9
They for got to mention Lousia Mae Alcott and family buried there.
To: Borges
Oh, come on, don't be so hard on the poor guy.
Some of his short stories are excellent. He writes in the language of his time . . . my great grandmother's ordinary speech was far more flowery than acceptable today . . . and she was just a small town Southern girl. Another writer who tends to florid idiom is Lafcadio Hearn, but if you refuse to read him on that ground, you miss some great stuff.
And, BTW, I can't STAND Henry James.
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posted on
06/27/2006 8:14:19 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: mtbopfuyn
Actually, that's not the "real" Sleepy Hollow. Washington Irving's Sleepy Hollow of Headless Horseman fame is on the Hudson river in Westchester County NY.
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posted on
06/27/2006 8:14:27 AM PDT
by
presidio9
("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K virus -only without the inconvenient deadline.)
To: presidio9
How interesting. I admit I'd rather read a biography of Hawthorne than his fiction, though. I guess I was stuned by having to deal with "The Scarlet Letter" in junior high!
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posted on
06/27/2006 8:14:39 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("Wallow in poverty, you whining gerbil! They're taking everyone's money!" ~dljordan)
To: AnAmericanMother
If you read Melville and Thoreau you can see what a great prose stylist of the time can do. They are miles above Hawthorne. James is brilliant. Read the early stuff which has much less tangled diction. 'Daisy Miller' of 'The American'.
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posted on
06/27/2006 8:16:02 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: mtbopfuyn
To: mtbopfuyn
The famous Sleepy Hollow of Washington Irving's story was never officially named Sleepy Hollow while he was alive, but was located in a Dutch settlement called Beekmantown near Tarrytown, NY.
In 1997 the residents of North Tarrytown, NY voted to rename their community Sleepy Hollow in honor of Irving.
This Concord, NH Sleepy Hollow is unconnected to Irving.
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posted on
06/27/2006 8:16:46 AM PDT
by
wideawake
("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
To: AmericanMade1776
To: presidio9
They were a beautiful couple, and it's nice to think of them being together finally, as they loved to be in life. I hope this works, I've never posted pictures here before:
To: linda_22003
Hey, not bad for a first try! :)
To: presidio9
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posted on
06/27/2006 8:20:34 AM PDT
by
GOP Poet
To: presidio9
Interesting that this article leaves out any mention of the second child, son Julian.
Probably because he did time . . . lent his name to a fraudulent mining scheme, IIRC. But he paid his debt to society.
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posted on
06/27/2006 8:20:53 AM PDT
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AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: Borges
Of course I've read "Daisy Miller" and "The Turn of the Screw" - also that short story about the doppelganger or reflection in the mirror . . . can't recall the title.
But is "The Confidence Man" really better than "Young Goodman Brown"?
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posted on
06/27/2006 8:22:18 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: Borges
I've never understood the appeal of Hawthorne's starchy prose and tin ear for dialogue. If Henry James hadn't propped him up at the right time I wonder if he would be remembered at all. Sort of like James Joyce, his "Ulysses"(sp?) dribble, and the push,push,push, I'm-gonna-make-you-a-literary-giant-whether-you-like-it-or-not-damnit!-so-sobber-up! patroness Peggy Guggenheim.
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posted on
06/27/2006 8:23:01 AM PDT
by
yankeedame
("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
To: linda_22003
Welcome to the computer age.
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posted on
06/27/2006 8:23:13 AM PDT
by
presidio9
("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K virus -only without the inconvenient deadline.)
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