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purity ilself. His imagination is rich. His sense of aii is cxquisite,
and his executive ability great. He has little or no ability of tone.
He handles all subjects in the same subdued, misty, dreamy, sugge-
stive, innuendo way, and although I think him the truest genius, upon
the whole, which our litterature possesses, I cannot help regarding
him as the most desperate mannerist of his day.» ^
I sin stora artikel om Hawthorne av 1847 preciserar
Poe sin mening om dennes bristande originalitet med or-
den: »He is peculiar and not original» 2. Endast motvil-
ligt ger han sitt erkännande ät Hawthornes exkursioner in
på Poes område:
»He has the purest style, the finest taste, the most available
scholarship, the most delicate humour, the most touching pathos, the
most radiant imagination, the most consummate ingenuity: and vvith
these varied good qualities he has done w e 1 1 as a mystic. But is
there any one of these qualities which should prevent his doing
doubly as vvell in a career of honest, upright, sensible, prehensible
and comprehensible things?»
Hawthornes alltför starka böjelse för det allegoriska
bekymrar Poe, som finner, att »his spirit of metaphor run-
mad is clearly imbibed from the Brook Farm Phalanx and
phalanstery atmosphere in which he has been so long
struggling for breath» ^.
Det har sitt intresse att se vad Hawthorne å sin sida
ansåg om Poe. Han skriver i ett brev (det enda bevarade)
till denne i juni 1846:
»I confess . . . that I admire you rather as a writer of tales
than as a critic upon them, I might often — and often do — dissent
Irom your opinions in the lat ter capacity, but could never fall to
recognize your force and orginality in the former».*
1 XVI, 43.
2 XIII, 154.
3 XIII, 155 o.
^
XVII, 233.
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