Answer the Questions. 1. What novel made N. Hawthorne world-known?

1. What novel made N. Hawthorne world-known?

2. What sides of human nature do Hawthorne's works show?

3. What themes did Hawthorne deal with?

4. When did he graduate from the college?

5. Where did he work in 1840?

6. What country was Hawthorne appointed U. S. Council in?

7. What books did Hawthorne write?

8. What themes do his early stories reveal?

9. What is the central idea of «The Scarlet Letter»?

10. What is the novel's structure?

11. What are his other novels about?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882), was the most widely published and most famous American poet of the 1800's. His reputation among critics declined sharply after his death, and he had much less influence on modern poetry than such other poets of his day as Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. However, many of his poems remain among the most familiar in American litera­ture.

Longfellow's best-known longer works include «Evangeline», «The Song of Hiawatha», and «The Courtship of Miles Standish». Among his popular shorter poems are «The Village Blacksmith», «The Children's Hour», «Paul Revere's Ride», «The Wreck of the Hesperus», and «Excelsior». Longfellow's works achieved great popularity in Europe as well as in the United States. He was the first American writer to be honored in the Poets' Comer of Westminster Abbey in London.