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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... relation between past and present that constitutes a life . While Tho- reau's Journal is not an autobiography in any ... relation between the two works , a relation that is far more intimate and fluid than scholars generally have ...
... relation between past and present that constitutes a life . While Tho- reau's Journal is not an autobiography in any ... relation between the two works , a relation that is far more intimate and fluid than scholars generally have ...
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... relation to it " ( 66 ) . That Thoreau was reading Wordsworth in these years merely con- firms the deepening of his commitment to the redemptive power of memory , a pervasive theme of Romanticism , and to the form of writing - his ...
... relation to it " ( 66 ) . That Thoreau was reading Wordsworth in these years merely con- firms the deepening of his commitment to the redemptive power of memory , a pervasive theme of Romanticism , and to the form of writing - his ...
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... relation to his evolving study of natural process . The night , far from obscuring nature , opened a clearer view of it . On September 5th , Thoreau writes , " This [ moon ] light & this hour takes the civilization all out of the ...
... relation to his evolving study of natural process . The night , far from obscuring nature , opened a clearer view of it . On September 5th , Thoreau writes , " This [ moon ] light & this hour takes the civilization all out of the ...
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... relation to the present , would gradually chart nature's longest , most enduring patterns . In other words , seasonal variation as such was not the final object of Thoreau's study . Rather , he would learn from such variation the ...
... relation to the present , would gradually chart nature's longest , most enduring patterns . In other words , seasonal variation as such was not the final object of Thoreau's study . Rather , he would learn from such variation the ...
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... relation to nature . In the entry for May 21st , following descriptions of ash , pine , and wild holly trees , we come suddenly to an extended passage in which Thoreau claims , " I think that the existence of man in nature is the ...
... relation to nature . In the entry for May 21st , following descriptions of ash , pine , and wild holly trees , we come suddenly to an extended passage in which Thoreau claims , " I think that the existence of man in nature is the ...
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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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