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expresses in his Leaves of Grass are democratic ones besides his singing of science, labor and nature and can be summarized as the realization of liberty, equality and fraternity. Song of Myself ({ Q^^LSQ) is the most famous poem in the collection. 3. Nathaniel Hawthorne (i^KffP- 6^,1804—1864, -^B/jH)ti() Hawthorne has been considered to be the first great American writer of fiction . His concern with moral or ethical problems and his talent in dealing with them attain him success as a novelist. , Hawthorne was bom into the family of a sea captain in Massachusetts. In 1821 he entered Bowdoin College and graduated in 1825 in the class with Longfellow and Franklin Pierce ( g.^jSft • \S^Slf,^B^+ Wii^M) , who later became American President. He published TJie Scarlet Letter ({^.1^}) in 1850, which made his fame and gave to American literature its first symbolic novel. Soon after , he published The House of the Seven Gables (^4;-t-^liW;;^--F)) , a great novel of family decadence in 1851. The central subject of Hawthornes major works was human soul. It was in his exploration of human soul that Hawthorn revealed his criticism of life . He wrote a kind of mystical fiction . His style is soft, flowing and almost feminine . The Scarlet Letter ^ ^ There are only three main characters in the novel: Pearls mother , Hester Prynne the adulteress; he