A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851Penguin, 01.12.1993 - 368 Seiten Thoreau's journal of 1851 reveals profound ideas and observations in the making, including wonderful writing on the natural history of Concord. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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... observations is the re- markable beauty of the Journal's prose . As Alfred Kazin once remarked , " It is not natural ... observe Thoreau's self - conscious and overt aes- thetic purposes for his Journal . In viewing this document as " a ...
... observations is the re- markable beauty of the Journal's prose . As Alfred Kazin once remarked , " It is not natural ... observe Thoreau's self - conscious and overt aes- thetic purposes for his Journal . In viewing this document as " a ...
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... observations from his walks . The Journal was , to use a famous phrase from Walden , Thoreau's " morning work , " and it proceeded rhyth- mically with his afternoon walks . These activities fed one another , and , in their reciprocity ...
... observations from his walks . The Journal was , to use a famous phrase from Walden , Thoreau's " morning work , " and it proceeded rhyth- mically with his afternoon walks . These activities fed one another , and , in their reciprocity ...
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... life and nature because its observations were always made in the present , and it could preserve such moments for later consideration . That this process of keeping time was for Thoreau a form of art , INTRODUCTION xi.
... life and nature because its observations were always made in the present , and it could preserve such moments for later consideration . That this process of keeping time was for Thoreau a form of art , INTRODUCTION xi.
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... observations . During this year , he read Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle , William Bartram's Travels , and the work of other naturalists such as Kalm , Cuvier , Agassiz , and Gould . A bi- ography of Linnaeus also absorbed him during ...
... observations . During this year , he read Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle , William Bartram's Travels , and the work of other naturalists such as Kalm , Cuvier , Agassiz , and Gould . A bi- ography of Linnaeus also absorbed him during ...
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... observations surprise him , as indicated by a passage written on September 12th : " I can hardly believe that there is so great a diffirence between one year & another as my journal shows . The 11th of this month last year the river was ...
... observations surprise him , as indicated by a passage written on September 12th : " I can hardly believe that there is so great a diffirence between one year & another as my journal shows . The 11th of this month last year the river was ...
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afternoon appear apple atmosphere beautiful berries birds blossom blue bridge brook bushes button bush calyx Cicuta Maculata Clark's Island Cliffs clouds cold color Conantum Concord crickets Daniel Peck dark distance earth Fair Haven farmers feet fields flowers fruit grass green ground hear heard heaven hill horizon inches inhabitants Journal leaves light live look meadow Merrimack Rivers Methinks miles moon moonlight morning muskrat nature never night observed pasture perchance pitch pines plant Pond Prinos rain reflected reminded rising river road rocks rods root sand says season seeds seen shine shore shrub oaks side snow sound spring stems stone stream summer surface swamp sweet thick things Thoreau thought Transcendentalists traveller trees umbels Utricularia Walden Walden Pond walk warm weed whippoorwill white pines wild wind winter wood thrush woods yellow
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