Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Scarlet Letter'

To whom this may concern,

When first hearing about the romantics I thought that there was going to be a lot of lovey dovey stuff but I was way off on my thinking. One of the major authors that we talked about was Edgar Allan Poe. He is a prime example of the romantics not being all lovey dovey. When reading Poe’s poems and short stories I got the feeling that it was dark and sad. Poe wrote about a lot of death and dark things. I think that this comes from his rough childhood and all the deaths that he faced so early in his life. Hawthorne is another example of the romantics not being lovey dovey. Hawthorne wrote the Scarlet Letter which is has its dark sides in it. One of the main things in the Scarlet Letter is adultery. This is a dark thing