Edgar Allen Poe wrote that he could see that imagination is a part of many of Hawthorne's (Poe) works. It's as if imagination is incorporated into Hawthorne's work almost like an ingredient in a cake. In describing Hawthorne's work in the Encyclopedia of World Biography, they state that Hawthorne's work is "broadly allegorical but imbued with imaginative passion". Hawthorne's imagination was infused in his work. Things like the experimentation in “The Birthmark”, the journey and hidden themes in “Young Goodman Brown” or the imaginary youth in “Dr. Heidegger's Experiment”. Poe wrote that Hawthorne's stories "are the product of a truly imaginative intellect" and that ""Heidegger's Dr. Experiment" is extraordinarily