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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... things- There is something creative & primal in the cool mist - this dewy mist does not fail to suggest music to me - unaccountably - fertility the origin of things- An atmosphere which has forgotten the sun - where the ancient ...
... things- There is something creative & primal in the cool mist - this dewy mist does not fail to suggest music to me - unaccountably - fertility the origin of things- An atmosphere which has forgotten the sun - where the ancient ...
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... things -- of the evening & the morning & all the phenomena between them " ( 287 ) . By recording natural phenomena every day , and at every season , he would create record of the natural past that , seen in relation to the present ...
... things -- of the evening & the morning & all the phenomena between them " ( 287 ) . By recording natural phenomena every day , and at every season , he would create record of the natural past that , seen in relation to the present ...
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... things about it . In its very nature , the Journal is always directed to the occasion that life presents just now . Its literary " moment " is the present instant of time , and its open form suggests a view of reality in which meanings ...
... things about it . In its very nature , the Journal is always directed to the occasion that life presents just now . Its literary " moment " is the present instant of time , and its open form suggests a view of reality in which meanings ...
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... things . Nowhere in Thoreau's writings is his struggle toward a new worldview more apparent than in the Journal . And in his yearning for contact with the actual , living earth , he also creates a legacy for future generations of nature ...
... things . Nowhere in Thoreau's writings is his struggle toward a new worldview more apparent than in the Journal . And in his yearning for contact with the actual , living earth , he also creates a legacy for future generations of nature ...
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... thing with which you labor - it is a waste of time for the writer to use his talents merely . Be faithful to your genius - write in the strain that interests you most- Consult not the popular taste " ( 312 ) . Thoreau's struggle for ...
... thing with which you labor - it is a waste of time for the writer to use his talents merely . Be faithful to your genius - write in the strain that interests you most- Consult not the popular taste " ( 312 ) . Thoreau's struggle for ...
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