Excerpt from An Analytical Index to the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: With a Sketch of His Life Possibly this idle life had as much to do in ripening the genius of llawthorne as any of his studies, if his discursive, desultory reading may be called study. Among his early favorites in books were Bunyan, Spenser, Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sydney, Milton, Thomson, and Gray; and there are traces of famil iarity with some of them in his books, the allusions to Bunyan being perhaps more frequent than those to any other author. The ...
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Excerpt from An Analytical Index to the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: With a Sketch of His Life Possibly this idle life had as much to do in ripening the genius of llawthorne as any of his studies, if his discursive, desultory reading may be called study. Among his early favorites in books were Bunyan, Spenser, Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sydney, Milton, Thomson, and Gray; and there are traces of famil iarity with some of them in his books, the allusions to Bunyan being perhaps more frequent than those to any other author. The Celestial Railroad is a satire founded on The Pilgrim's Progress, and his tendency to allegory is due, no doubt, to his early love for Spenser and Bunyan. Judging from Fanshawe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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