as 'Little Annie's Ramble,' or 'A Rill from the Town-pump,' to those of a more ambitious cast, and in which the page glows with a wider and more fearful interest, like 'The Minister's Black Veil' and 'Dr. Heidegger's Experiment.'" Edgar Allan Poe offered a few critiques of Nathaniel Hawthorne's tales. Hawthorne received a mixed review from Poe, who writes that "high imaginations gleam from every page". He notes, however, that versatility is lacking in Hawthorne's tone and character development. Poe claims that Hawthorne is a man of "truest genius" but needs to work on subject areas of his writing. In his review of Twice-Told Tales, Poe also reveals a disdain for allegory, a tool which Hawthorne uses extensively. Legacy and adaptations Reverend Hooper's sermon in the short story was the launching point of the dramatic work The Minister's Black Veil by Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (2016), directed by Romeo Castellucci, with Willem Dafoe as Reverend Hooper, text by Claudia Castellucci and original music and sound design by Scott Gibbons. References External links Full summary and analysis of The Minister's Black Veil The Minister's Black Veil at American Literature The Minister's Black Veil at Eldritch Press "The Minister's Black Veil: Symbol, Meaning and the Context of Hawthorne's Art "Ironic Unity in Hawthorne's 'The Minister's Black Veil'" "New Essays on Hawthorne's Major Tales" "Gothic Elements and Religion in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Fiction" "Nathaniel Hawthorne" The Minister's Black Veil - Annotated text aligned to Common Core Standards 1836 short stories Short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne Works originally published in The Token and Atlantic Souvenir