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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... suggest strongly that by 1850 , and cer- tainly by 1851 , Thoreau had begun to see his Journal as an integral work - a " lifework " that henceforth would be his central literary concern . We may , thus , divide the Journal's development ...
... suggest strongly that by 1850 , and cer- tainly by 1851 , Thoreau had begun to see his Journal as an integral work - a " lifework " that henceforth would be his central literary concern . We may , thus , divide the Journal's development ...
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... suggests the spiritual purposes that drove Emerson and others in his circle to keep a journal . For the Concord Transcendentalists , a journal was the most re- sponsive of literary forms , the form most likely to catch one's inspi ...
... suggests the spiritual purposes that drove Emerson and others in his circle to keep a journal . For the Concord Transcendentalists , a journal was the most re- sponsive of literary forms , the form most likely to catch one's inspi ...
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... suggested by the following Journal passage from early 1851 : " I would fain keep a journal which should contain ... suggests an important relation between the two works , a relation that is far more intimate and fluid than scholars ...
... suggested by the following Journal passage from early 1851 : " I would fain keep a journal which should contain ... suggests an important relation between the two works , a relation that is far more intimate and fluid than scholars ...
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... suggested by the entry for August 21st , in which Tho- reau writes that the " related yet distinct " properties of plants " suggest a history to Nature - a Natural history in a new sense " ( 173 ) . The great passage describing the flow ...
... suggested by the entry for August 21st , in which Tho- reau writes that the " related yet distinct " properties of plants " suggest a history to Nature - a Natural history in a new sense " ( 173 ) . The great passage describing the flow ...
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... suggest music to me - unaccountably - fertility the origin of things- An atmosphere which has forgotten the sun - where the ancient principle of moisture prevails . ( 65 ) So consistently mysterious and evocative are Thoreau's accounts ...
... suggest music to me - unaccountably - fertility the origin of things- An atmosphere which has forgotten the sun - where the ancient principle of moisture prevails . ( 65 ) So consistently mysterious and evocative are Thoreau's accounts ...
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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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