After this author rebutted a harsh review from the Literary World, another writer declared that this author’s heart “beat in my ribs and mine in yours.” This author’s death inspired the poem “Monody” from a writer who posed as an “a Virginian spending July in Vermont” to praise a story collection. This author described the “absolute torture of the breast” of his character Coverdale refusing to run away from a farm with the philanthropist Hollingsworth. The shield on Elizabeth Pain’s grave inspired this author to depict a grave for two with a simple (*) red-on-black symbol. A short story by this author describes how Beatrice dies after drinking the “cure” for her poisonous body. This dedicatee of Moby-Dick described a man who refuses to acknowledge his child Pearl on a scaffold, but later reveals a symbol seared on his chest. For 10 points, Herman Melville loved what author of the Scarlet Letter? ■END■
ANSWER: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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