Nathaniel Hawthorne documentary
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- Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion.
He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, the only judge from the Salem witch trials who never repented his involvement. Hawthorne entered Bowdoin College in 1821, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1824, and graduated in 1825. He published his first work in 1828, the novel Fanshawe; he later tried to suppress it, feeling that it was not equal to the standard of his later work. He published several short stories in periodicals, which he collected in 1837 as Twice-Told Tales. The following year, he became engaged to Sophia Peabody. He worked at the Boston Custom House and joined Brook Farm, a transcendentalist community, before marrying Peabody in 1842. The couple moved to The Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts, later moving to Salem, the Berkshires, then to The Wayside in Concord. The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850, followed by a succession of other novels. A political appointment as consul took Hawthorne and family to Europe before their return to Concord in 1860. Hawthorne died on May 19, 1864, and was survived by his wife and their three children.
Nathaniel Hawthorne documentary
2011
Hawthorne wrote president Pierce's inaugural speech! What a great honor that I never knew of my favorite author 💗 Thank you for the documentary!
Visiting Salem and Concord, MA gave me a better understanding of Hawthorne’s work. Standing in front of the Custom House and the House of the Seven Gables (now a tourist trap) gave me insight to the first part of “The Scarlet Letter) and also about the curse of the Pynchon family in “House of the Seven Gables”. Likewise visiting Concord to see his home and his burial place. The cemetery where he’s buried is a fascinating place to spend time in. I also visited where the Old Man in the Mountain used to be before Nature and erosion finally took its toll on that fascinating outcrop of stone. Both my dad and his mother as well as my 4th grade teacher often read that story to me. Being able to actually visit where the Old Man used to be was the fulfillment of a childhood wish to see the Great Stone Face in the White Mountains of NH. My personal opinion is that Hawthorne is an author who deserves to be much more popular as a writer than he is.
I can never forget Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
Boston public television's version of " The Scarlett Letter ", is my favorite. I'd love to know who walked of that set, with that Scarlett Letter!
Thanks for this documentary - really enjoyed it! (One slight correction, though, The Berkshires are considered to be in Western MA, not upstate NY.) Hawthorne's wife, Sophia, was a painter from a really interesting family - great book about them by Megan Marshall, "THE PEABODY SISTERS: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism."
I just found this channel today and I’m IN LOVE. Thank you!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Welcome to the channel 💙💙💙
This was very interesting.I never knew much about him, but always enjoyed his writing.I recently discovered he's my cousin, and so is Franklin Pierce.I learned quite a bit from this documentary.
Loved the documentary on Hawthorne. I hadn't realized his connection with US President Franklin Pierce, which was way cool to see! Who knows what Hawthorne could have written if he had not passed away suddenly. I was in Salem, MA many years ago, in the late 80s, but at that time hadn't realized who the author was, or that he was from that town. But I have grown to respect him and his work!
Nicely done!
To quote a segment of “family guy” regarding hawthorn:
“Oh just ruining 9th grade for everyone”
(Now if you’ll excuse me I feel like I need a shower after quoting family guy 🤢)
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Lovely documentaries, really enjoyable to watch!
Surinam is on the northeast coast of South America between Guyana and French Giana; it was formerly known as "Dutch Giana"- A bloody long way from Indonesia!
Beautiful documentary.
Thanks for the post. Hawthorne is an intriguing and distinctly American writer whose influence is controversial and ill understood (I'm still wrapping my head around it). Great channel, too. I subscribed!
Hawthorne can certainly be complex, distanced from the other transcendentalists. Thanks and welcome aboard!
Hawthorne's red house near Lenox is in Massachusetts, (not in New York State as the commentator on this video states).
Loved reading a collection of his short stories.
It is interesting to note that Hawthorne's daughter became a Catholic nun. A biography of the woman, "Sorrow Built a Bridge" is a fascinating read.
God bless
Converting to Catholicism was a thing among the Unitarian elite in Boston due the cultural superiority of the Catholics (before the Irish takeover of the church). The nun superior of the Catholic convent in Charlestown that was burned down by a Protestant mob was a covert from a prominent Unitarian family. Some speculate that the mob would have dispersed without doing hatm had it not been for the condescending and arrogant scolding they received from this upper class nun. At that time it was a popular thing that nuns were killing and burying their babies inside their convents. Col Shaw of the famous black Civil War regiment did not convert but he spent a year studying with the Jesuits at Fordham University in NYC.
And the all commit these shameless crimes 'in the name of God'! Just as it is done today by religious leaders and even politicians. What a blasphemy. And believing not be hold accountable.
Very good doc., outstanding
The Puritans did NOT think "the only way to Heaven" was "to lead a busy, fruitful life." The Puritans were carriers of the legacy of the Reformation, and believed that salvation was by faith in Jesus Christ as Lord God Incarnate and Savior.
You are very mistaken in thinking the Puritans were of one faith, they were diverse in their religious beliefs. I am a cousin to Hawthorn and Pierce and we were all Quakers, yes you heard that, Quakers from the start who endured much persecution from the Boston Church. Fortunately we were wealthy and moved to Connecticut and Rhode Island founding numerous towns that had congregations independent of Boston. Our number one tenet is good works. Ryan Reynolds theological history channel here on CZcams goes into this in detail since you haven't done your homework.
They murdered Indians.
@@CalienteDesign Yes, as the first ones that landed at Plymouth were followed by Puritans of a conquering mein.
@@CalienteDesignthose quakers were protestants... believe in the same jesus, different orthodoxy
What did the reformation have to do with anything in the America's? What mindset are you talking about?
Dutch Suriname, where Hawthorne's father died from yellow fever, is not in present-day "faraway Indonesia." It is the present-day Republic of Suriname, which is on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America.
It's always fascinating to trace the steps by which the Colonists ( basically
English by birth and upbringing ) diverged from the Mother Country as time passed and became " Americans " with their own distinct literary voice.
Wonderful!
I enjoyed this since Hawthorne is one of my favorite novelists. The House of the Seven Gables is the novel of his I love the best.
From what I've read, my conclusion is that it was Hawthorne's favorite, too.
This biography is sprinkled with little jokes. Whoever wrote the script is quite entertaining.
Wonderful, thank you. The only thing I would say, is that you have 1825 and 1828, as 1815 and 1818.
Can anyone help me - what's the name of the piece at the beginning - a movement from a Schubert or Schumann sonata?
Schubert - impromptu no.3
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Wow that's a lot of good authors from that place
I attended Camp Hawthorne, in Raymond Maine.I don't know if his family home is still standing.
Thank you 🙏 🤍
Please upload a Herman Melville doc next.
I can do that. I have just the thing.
@@AuthorDocumentaries Thank you!
Very nice! But, I was hoping Melville would have had a greater part. But, they were quite different.
Can you fix the auto captions to be accurate?
I’m about to tour through the nathanial Hawthorne house in Salem with my girlfriend
I love him so ❤❤ thanks 🤗🤗
Problematic portions in this bio
Love his writings:
Fanshawe (published anonymously, 1828)[129]
The Scarlet Letter, A Romance (1850)
The House of the Seven Gables, A Romance (1851)
The Blithedale Romance (1852)
The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni (1860) (as Transformation: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, UK publication, same year)
The Dolliver Romance (1863) (unfinished)
Septimius Felton; or, the Elixir of Life (unfinished, published in the Atlantic Monthly, 1872)
Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A Romance (unfinished, with preface and notes by Julian Hawthorne, 1882)
Short story collections
Twice-Told Tales (1837)
Grandfather's Chair (1840)
Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1851)
The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales (1852)
Tanglewood Tales (1853)
The Dolliver Romance and Other Pieces (1876)
The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains (1889)
Selected short stories
"The Hollow of the Three Hills" (1830)
"Roger Malvin's Burial" (1832)
"My Kinsman, Major Molineux" (1832)
"Young Goodman Brown" (1835)
"The Minister's Black Veil" (1836)
"The Gray Champion" (1835)
"The White Old Maid" (1835)
"Wakefield" (1835)
"The Ambitious Guest" (1835)
"The Man of Adamant" (1837)
"The May-Pole of Merry Mount" (1837)
"The Great Carbuncle" (1837)
"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" (1837)
"A Virtuoso's Collection" (May 1842)
"The Birth-Mark" (March 1843)
"The Celestial Railroad" (1843)
"Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent" (1843)
"Earth's Holocaust" (1844)
"Rappaccini's Daughter" (1844)
"P.'s Correspondence" (1845)
"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1846)
"Fire Worship" (1846)
"Ethan Brand" (1850)
"The Great Stone Face" (1850)
"Feathertop" (1852)
Nonfiction
Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny (written 1851, published 1904)
Our Old Home (1863)
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks (1871)
See also
He " tasted the World " .....in Leamington Spa ?!?!?
I love to learn the back story of the writers
William Dean Howells was a novelist, not a poet.
Yeah, I agree with that. He published a book of poetry, but I'd call him a novelist too. Good catch!
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Thanks. And thanks for the video. I
really enjoyed it, especially the visuals, and I intend to watch it again soon. I've been to Salem and Concord and Lenox and Pittsfield and the paintings and photos brought back memories.
I' ve read Brenda Wineapple's bio of Hawthorne and I recommend it; and I've watched Ms. Wineapple's interview with the estimable Brian Lamb on C-SPAN a few times and that's worth a look.
But to get back: I hadn't known Howells wrote poetry. Melville did, too, but few people think of him first as poet.
Thanks for all the great videos. I watch them all.
@@JohnPaul-le4pf The same goes for Hemingway too. I guess if their novels overshadow the poetry, they're novelists first. I had to look up Howells just to see why the researcher included that here. I read Silas Lapham and knew Howells as a novelist too.
Thanks for the suggestions. I wish I could visit that area of New England. I'm only in New York, so I'll add it to the bucket list. A descendant of Hawthorne visited my school once - Alison Hawthorne Deming, so there's that. I read 2 of her books of poems. Anyway, glad you're liking the docs!
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Salem and Concord, especially, would really be worth the trip.
@@JohnPaul-le4pf There's so much history there. I'm doing it.
So as a catholic myself, I think you misunderstand how the Pope works. He is not a ruler or really in charge of much. He is only a leader. You could actually just call him the bishop of Rome. Bishops have more power over the churches than the Pope does. But other than that, a spectacular documentary.
Anglo educated. Can't beat it! New England was full of it, thankfully.
Salem...
A life of poignancy and purpose…something we artistic people strive to have.
Haha....women swooned...too funny
What's he remembered for two novels neither have I have any interest in! Wonderful I'm sure.
B S ......
Cool dose to the icon the greatest brother ever continue to rest in power brother we miss you 😭😭😭😭😭🥺🥺🥺🥺😭😭 and there's no such thing as race at all peace ✌
A tendentious presentation of Puritan thought. The Puritans were believers in the gospel of grace, and they did not work so hard to earn heaven but because heaven was their home. How can one who is not a believer understand this? He cannot.
it is a documentary about the writer and you are talking about the shitty weather?