...insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance writers may find congenial and easily handled themes,...

...imagination, this was no light task, as his own words declare. "No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...as is happily the case with my dear native land." This inevitable difficulty, once conquered by Hawthorne, has seemed less formidable to later romancers....

...a romance about a country where j there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no pic- i turesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity,...as ' is happily the case with my dear native land. It will j be very long, I trust, before romance-writers may find congenial and easily handled themes,...

...Hawthorne wrote calmly in the Preface to The Marble Faun, " No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor any thing but a commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my...

...difficulty an American author has in finding such materials: "No author without a trial can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight. Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wall-flowers need ruin to make them grow." This background or...

...words that more fitly apply to the time of which we speak. "No author without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...as is happily the case with my dear, native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance writers may find congenial and easily handled themes,...

...words that more fitly apply to the time of which we speak. "No author without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...as is happily the case with my dear, native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance writers may find congenial and easily handled themes,...

...Brook Farm experience, were passed, as he himself tells us, in a country where there were ' no shadows, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy...commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight,' — in a town and a society, which had and could have nothing — or almost nothing — of those special...

...Brook Farm experience, were passed, as he himself tells us, in a country where there were ' no shadows, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy...anything but a commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight,'—in a town and a society, which had and could have nothing— or almost nothing—of those...

...clumsiest tricks. He forces his apologies to sound like boasting. No author [he says] can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiqiuty, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity,...