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I found a warm and witty Nathaniel Hawthorne in his Twice-Told Tales, and a playful agility I never could have imagined from The Scarlet Letter.
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Story-Teller, "to the evocatively titled" Twice-Told
National Demons: Robert Burns, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Folk in the Forest 2006
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Just this morning, I was listening to a fascinating BBC radio program, "Islam and Aristophanes: Twice-Told Tales From the Forests of Bavaria."
Should You Worry 2008
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Grecian argle-bargle from HPL, obviously modelled on Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales, and just as obviously a mistaken choice by Lovecraft.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007
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Poe must have been aware of Peabody's review of Twice-Told Tales for the New Yorker, in which she constructs a very Wordsworthian persona for Hawthorne: "he is frank and communicative in his character, winning thereby the experience of whatever hearts come in his path, to subject it to his Wordsworthian philosophy" (quoted in Harshbarger 124).
Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America 1999
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Hawthorne was well acquainted with Wordsworth, and his Twice-Told Tales did not go entirely unrecognized by the poet either; this is due to Hawthorne's friend (and later sister-in-law) Elizabeth Palmer Peabody.
Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America 1999
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Poe's review of Twice-Told Tales delineates concise poems and "the brief prose tale" as the ideal vehicles for the author (448, emphasis added).
Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America 1999
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Poe's review of Twice-Told Tales is a stab aimed mostly at the author and partially at his associates.
Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America 1999
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Unlike many of the characters of the Ballads and Twice-Told Tales who are indelibly marked by their mental aberrations, the delirium of those Dix encounters is highly treatable and even curable.
Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America 1999
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While being entirely accurate, the article does not acknowledge fully that the apple-dealer is a later manifestation of archetypes rooted firmly in the Lyrical Ballads and expressed initially in Twice-Told Tales.
Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America 1999
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