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Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Concord River
ISBN : NYPL:33433074827639
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Concord River (Mass.)
ISBN : PURD:32754071429793
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Merrimack River (N.H. and Mass.)
ISBN : MINN:31951001995593I
Author : H. Daniel Peck
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300061048
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and Walden, the only works Thoreau conceived and brought to conclusion as books, bear a distinctively important relation to each other and to his Journal, the document whose twenty-four-year composition encompasses their development. In a brilliant new book, H. Daniel Peck shows how these three works engage one another dialectically and how all of them participate in a larger project of imagination. "Morning work," a phrase from Walden, is the name Peck gives to this larger project. by it he means the work done by memory and perception as they act to shape Thoreau's emerging vision of a harmonious universe. Peck argues that the changing balance of memory and perception in the three works defines the unique literary character of each of them. He offers a major reevaluation of Walden, which he sees neither as the epitome of Thoreau's career (the traditional view) nor as an anomaly (the recent, revisionary view). Rather, he sees Walden as a pivotal work, reflecting the issues of loss and remembrance that earlier had found prominent expression in A Week and prefiguring the late Journal's vision of natural order. Focusing on the two-million-word Journal, Peck provides the first critical analysis that defines the essential forces and the imaginative coherence in its vast discursiveness. The consideration of memory and perception in Thoreau also leads peck to the issue of the writer's modernity, and he explores the ways in which Thoreau anticipates twentieth-century thought, especially in the works of such great objectivist philosophers as William James and Alfred North Whitehead.
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : EHC:148101062614Y
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Concord River (Mass.)
ISBN : UOM:39015088259109
Author : David K. Leff
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781587298394
In the hot summer of 2004, David Leff floated away from the routine of daily life just as Henry David Thoreau and his brother had done in their own small boat in 1839. Fortified with Thoreau’s observations as revealed in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Leff brought his own concept of mindful deep travel to these same New England waterways. His first-person narrative uses his ecological way of looking, of going deep rather than far, to show that our outward journeys are inseparable from our inward ones. How we see depends on where we are in our lives and with whom we travel. Leff chose his companions wisely. In consecutive journeys his neighbor and friend Alan, a veteran city planner; his son Josh, an energetic eleven-year-old; and his sweetheart Pamela, a compassionate professional caregiver, added their perspectives to Leff’s own experiences as a government official in natural resources policy. Not so much sight seeing as sight seeking, together they explored a geography of the imagination as well as the rich natural and human histories of the rivers and their communities. The heightened awareness of deep travel demands that we immerse ourselves fully in places and realize that they exist in time as well as space. Its mindfulness enriches the experience and makes the voyager worthy of the journey. Leff’s intriguing, contemplative deep travel along these historic rivers presents a methodology for exploration that will enrich any trip.
Author : Linck C. Johnson,University of Virginia. Bibliographical Society
Publisher : Charlottesville : Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, by the University Press of Virginia
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Concord River (Mass.)
ISBN : UCAL:B4956055
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0395947995
Describes how Blanche Douglas Leathers studied the Mississippi River and passed the test to become a steamboat captain in 1894.
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 799 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679642022
Henry David Thoreau's vision of personal freedom is indelibly etched on the American consciousness. 'We need the tonic of wildness,' Thoreau wrote in Walden, and by turning his back on town amenities to build a house on Walden Pond in 1845, he helped shape our notions of the individual, subsistence, and a moral relation to nature. Raising white beans and potatoes that he sold to his Concord neighbors, he stayed for two years; his book records both the philosophy he developed while living alone and the facts of his everyday life. Included here with the complete text of Walden are selections from Thoreau's first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; 'A Plea for Captain John Brown,' his eloquent defense of the American abolitionist's rebellion at Harper's Ferry, and such masterpieces as his famous essay 'Civil Disobedience,' in which he describes a night spent in prison for refusing to pay a poll tax to a government that condoned slavery.
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Concord River (Mass.)
ISBN : UIUC:30112010542444
Author : T. S. McMillin
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587299780
In the continental United States, rivers serve to connect state to state, interior with exterior, the past to the present, but they also divide places and peoples from one another. These connections and divisions have given rise to a diverse body of literature that explores American nature, ranging from travel accounts of seventeenth-century Puritan colonists to magazine articles by twenty-first-century enthusiasts of extreme sports. Using pivotal American writings to determine both what literature can tell us about rivers and, conversely, how rivers help us think about the nature of literature, The Meaning of Rivers introduces readers to the rich world of flowing water and some of the different ways in which American writers have used rivers to understand the world through which these waters flow. Embracing a hybrid, essayistic form—part literary theory, part cultural history, and part fieldwork—The Meaning of Rivers connects the humanities to other disciplines and scholarly work to the land. Whether developing a theory of palindromes or reading works of American literature as varied as Henry David Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and James Dickey’s Deliverance, McMillin urges readers toward a transcendental retracing of their own interpretive encounters. The nature of texts and the nature of “nature” require diverse and versatile interpretation; interpretation requires not only depth and concentration but also imaginative thinking, broad-mindedness, and engaged connection-making. By taking us upstream as well as down, McMillin draws attention to the potential of rivers for improving our sense of place and time.
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2300000139457
Henri David Thoreau was an American writer, philosopher, publicist, naturalist, and poet. He prominently represented American transcendentalism throughout the mid-1800s. Thoreau’s love and observations of nature played a significant role in his writings, often forming the basis for critiques on modern society. As a naturalist, he advocated for the conservation of nature. Thoreau encouraged individual, passive, non-violent as a means of resistance to public evils. He personally supported the abolitionist movement and, as much as possible, took an active interest in the fate of fugitive slaves who were sought by the police. His essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (1849) influenced Leo Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King. Thoreau’s key ideas and observations are contained in these collected works.
Author : Laura Dassow Walls
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226344690
"[The author] traces the full arc of Thoreau’s life, from his early days in the intellectual hothouse of Concord, when the American experiment still felt fresh and precarious, and 'America was a family affair, earned by one generation and about to pass to the next.' By the time he died in 1862, at only forty-four years of age, Thoreau had witnessed the transformation of his world from a community of farmers and artisans into a bustling, interconnected commercial nation. What did that portend for the contemplative individual and abundant, wild nature that Thoreau celebrated? Drawing on Thoreau’s copious writings, published and unpublished, [the author] presents a Thoreau vigorously alive in all his quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the ambitious Harvard College student; the ecstatic visionary who closed Walden with an account of the regenerative power of the Cosmos. We meet the man whose belief in human freedom and the value of labor made him an uncompromising abolitionist; the solitary walker who found society in nature, but also found his own nature in the society of which he was a deeply interwoven part. And, running through it all, Thoreau the passionate naturalist, who, long before the age of environmentalism, saw tragedy for future generations in the human heedlessness around him."--
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791041800308
In 1839, Thoreau and his brother took a small boat upriver and back. Some years later, while in his cabin at Walden Pond, he gathered his notes from that journey and other writings from his journals, and composed this, his first book. Like the rivers it describes, the book meanders through varying territories and climates. He writes of the natural surroundings they encounter and of the history of the region, but also takes long and remarkable detours through topics like friendship, history, a comparison of Christianity and Hinduism, Vedic literature, government and conscience, Thoreau’s philosophy of literature, monuments and graveyards, poetry (in particular Ossian, Chaucer, and certain minor Greek poets), and the satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. Thoreau also includes several poems of his own. Thoreau had the first edition of this book published at his own expense, and at first it struggled to find an audience. “I have now a library of nearly 900 volumes,” he remarked at one point, “over 700 of which I wrote myself.”