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Comments and Criticizes Edgar Allan Poe wrote important and somewhat unflattering reviews of both Twice-Told Tales and Mosses from an Old Manse Poes negative assessment was partly due to his own contempt of allegory and moral tales, and his chronic accusations of plagiarism.The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective—wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes We look upon him as one of the few men of indisputable genius to whom our country has as yet given birth. Richard Harter Fogle wrote that: “Hawthorne explored an interesting human psychology through his exploration of the dark side of human consciousness.” The appearance of the heroes in his works was very original and with a great deal of symbolism. It can also say that his heroes were not existed as an individual, but a symbolism of some kind of human’s psychological reality. Many writers and critics including Henry James were complained that Hawthorne’s heroes were not a fresh human being at all. Donald Ringe in Hawthorne’s Psychology of the Head and Heart wrote that: “Hawthorne used the vivid and detailed language to describe human’s heart, some of his works was indeed sort of reappearance of human’s inner world.” Poet John Greenleaf Whittier wrote that he admired the weird and subtle beauty in Hawthornes tales. Evert Augustus Duyckinck said, Of the American writers destined to live, he is the most original, the one least indebted to foreign models or literary precedents of any kind. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that Nathaniel Hawthornes reputation as a writer is a very pleasing fact, because his writing is not good for anything, and this is a tribute to the man” Henry James praised Hawthorne, saying, The fine thing in Hawthorne is that he cared for the deeper psychology, and that, in his way, he tried to become familiar with it. Judith Fute Lai(朱迪斯·弗特莱 )in Resisting Readers a foreword to the bo