WorkNathaniel Hawthorne

The Artist of the Beautiful

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Documented 1846

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

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“The " Artist of the Beautiful" presents in a form that is, indeed, beautiful, the opposite view as to what are the substantial realities of life.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p323

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p323; page given is to the 1869 reprint.