{"id":25306,"date":"2023-05-12T13:03:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T18:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/?p=25306"},"modified":"2023-05-12T13:03:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T18:03:47","slug":"nathaniel-hawthorne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/nathaniel-hawthorne\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathaniel Hawthorne"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nathaniel<\/a>Nathaniel Hawthorne<\/strong> lived in the Berkshires less than two years, 1850-51<\/strong>, but few sojourns by any artist anywhere have been as fruitful and memorable as his. <\/p>\n

Not only did he name the wild, never-cultivated land around the house he inhabited with his wife and children Tanglewood<\/strong>, but his residency impelled Herman Melville<\/strong> to swap his own New York home for his brother’s farm on Holmes Road in Pittsfield<\/strong>, where he would finish Moby-Dick<\/em>, and then dedicate it “in token of my admiration…” for Hawthorne’s genius!<\/p>\n

Tanglewood Tales<\/h3>\n

\"Nathaniel<\/a>From the introduction to Tanglewood Tales<\/strong>: It was idle, however, to imagine that an airy guest from Monument Mountain, Bald Summit, and old Graylock<\/strong>, shaggy with primeval forests, could see anything to admire in my poor little hillside, with its growth of frail and insect-eaten locust trees. Eustace very frankly called the view from my hill top tame; and so, no doubt, it was, after rough, broken, rugged, headlong Berkshire, and especially the northern parts of the county, with which his college residence had made him familiar. <\/em><\/p>\n

Read Tanglewood Tales<\/a>, and most of Nathaniel hawthorne free online, compliments of Project Gutenberg<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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By Mathew Benjamin Brady – Library of Congress, Public Domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=11558996<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nathaniel Hawthorne lived in the Berkshires less than two years, 1850-51, but few sojourns by any artist anywhere have been as fruitful and memorable as his. Not only did he name the wild, never-cultivated land around the house he inhabited with his wife and children Tanglewood, but his residency impelled Herman Melville to swap his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-literature","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}