![]() ![]() The Scarlet Letter was the first, and the tendency of criticism is to pronounce it the most impressive, also, of these ampler productions. The material is so wrought as to become incidental to something loftier and greater, for which our previous analysis of the contents of the egg had not prepared us. The shorter pieces have a lyrical quality, but the longer romances express more than a mere combination of lyrics they have a rich, multifarious life of their own. ![]() Rappaccini's Daughter, Young Goodman Brown, Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure, and The Artist of the Beautiful, on the one side, are the promise which is fulfilled in The Scarlet Letter and the House of The Seven Gables, on the other though we should hardly have understood the promise had not the fulfillment explained it. Between Hawthorne's earlier and his later productions there is no solution of literary continuity, but only increased growth and grasp. ![]()
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