hawthorne, Poe and Emerson were the first great masters in prose poetry we have had, and I doubt if as poets they have been surpassed by any of our metrical verse writers.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
If women have not been notable in our literature in the last fifty years, neither have we had another Emerson or hawthorne.
"Talks to Freshman Girls"
Helen Dawes Brown
Even hawthorne thought primarily of the element of imagination in the romances-the universal, not the local, element.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer