The Spiritual Journal Of Henry David Thoreau

Author : Malcolm Clemens Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133017876

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The Spiritual Journal of Henry David Thoreau by Malcolm Clemens Young Pdf

Most people who care about nature cannot help but use religious language to describe their experience. We can trace many of these conceptions of nature and holiness directly to influential nineteenth-century writers, especially Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862). In Walden, he writes that "God himself culminates in the present moment," and that in nature we encounter, "the workman whose work we are." But what were the sources of his religious convictions about the meaning of nature in human life?

Author : Malcolm Clemens Young
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780881461589

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The Spiritual Journal of Henry David Thoreau by Malcolm Clemens Young Pdf

Most people who care about nature cannot help but use religious language to describe their experience. We can trace many of these conceptions of nature and holiness directly to influential nineteenth-century writers, especially Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862). In Walden, he writes that "God himself culminates in the present moment," and that in nature we encounter, "the workman whose work we are." But what were the sources of his religious convictions about the meaning of nature in human life?

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : American poetry
ISBN : IND:30000007702651

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Journal of Henry D. Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993-12-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781101173879

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A Year in Thoreau's Journal by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

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.

Author : Flinders, Tom
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781608335411

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Henry David Thoreau by Flinders, Tom Pdf

"Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), embodies classic features of the American spirit--nonconformity, the impulse to seek renewal in nature, and the will to stand firm by his convictions. Famous for his retreat to Walden Pond and his night in jail (described in The Duty of Civil Disobedience), he was a profoundly religious man, though he remained unaffiliated with any organized religion. He might well serve as a patron saint for today's spiritual but not religious seekers. Thoreau experienced mystical ecstasies in his youth; he followed an almost monastic discipline of contemplation; he was an early pioneer in the exploration of Hinduism and eastern religion, which he integrated with his deep immersion in nature and his highly refined social conscience. This anthology, which focuses specific attention on Thoreau's spiritual and prophetic writings, draws on his voluminous journals, correspondence, essays, and selection from Walden and his other key works."--Publisher description

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780300111729

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I to Myself by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

This beautifully produced gift edition of Thoreaus journal has been carefullyselected and annotated by Jeffrey S. Cramer.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781590174401

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The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861 by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

The largest one-volume edition of Thoreau’s 25-year journal, with “some of the most vigorous and original prose in English” and insights into the origins of Walden and other works (Washington Post). Henry David Thoreau’s Journal was his life’s work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied his daily walks, the workshop where he developed his books and essays, and a project in its own right. This is one of the most intensive explorations ever made of the everyday environment, the revolving seasons, and the changing self. It is a treasure trove of some of the finest prose in English and, for those acquainted with it, its prismatic pages exercise a hypnotic fascination. Yet at roughly seven thousand pages, or two million words, it remains Thoreau’s least-known work. This reader’s edition, the largest one-volume edition of Thoreau’s Journal ever published, is the first to capture the scope, rhythms, and variety of the work as a whole. Ranging freely over the world at large, the Journal is no less devoted to the life within. As Thoreau says, “It is in vain to write on the seasons unless you have the seasons in you.” “ . . . a superb and uniquely accessible edition of an essential American masterpiece.” —Booklist

Author : Alan D. Hodder
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300129755

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Thoreau's Ecstatic Witness by Alan D. Hodder Pdf

When Henry David Thoreau died in 1862, friends and admirers remembered him as an eccentric man whose outer life was continuously fed by deeper spiritual currents. But scholars have since focused almost exclusively on Thoreau’s literary, political, and scientific contributions. This book offers the first in-depth study of Thoreau’s religious thought and experience. In it Alan D. Hodder recovers the lost spiritual dimension of the writer’s life, revealing a deeply religious man who, despite his rejection of organized religion, possessed a rich inner life, characterized by a sort of personal, experiential, nature-centered, and eclectic spirituality that finds wider expression in America today. At the heart of Thoreau’s life were episodes of exhilaration in nature that he commonly referred to as his ecstasies. Hodder explores these representations of ecstasy throughout Thoreau’s writings—from the riverside reflections of his first book through Walden and the later journals, when he conceived his journal writing as a spiritual discipline in itself and a kind of forum in which to cultivate experiences of contemplative non-attachment. In doing so, Hodder restores to our understanding the deeper spiritual dimension of Thoreau’s life to which his writings everywhere bear witness.

Author : Odell Shepard
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780486118895

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The Heart of Thoreau's Journals by Odell Shepard Pdf

The conflict between scientific observation and poetry, reflections on abolition, transcendental philosophy, other concerns are explored in this superb general selection from Thoreau's voluminous Journal.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0393327566

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Letters to a Spiritual Seeker by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

Fifty letters, comprising a correspondence of some fifteen years between the literary master and his friend, Harrison Blake, convey the writer's thoughts on God and spirituality, offering insight into such topics as the possibilities and limitations of human spirituality, the role of vocation in developing a spiritual life, and the importance of a direct relationship with God. Reprint.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781590173213

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The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861 by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

Henry David Thoreau’s Journal was his life’s work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied his daily walks, the workshop where he developed his books and essays, and a project in its own right—one of the most intensive explorations ever made of the everyday environment, the revolving seasons, and the changing self. It is a treasure trove of some of the finest prose in English and, for those acquainted with it, its prismatic pages exercise a hypnotic fascination. Yet at roughly seven thousand pages, or two million words, it remains Thoreau’s least-known work. This reader’s edition, the largest one-volume edition of Thoreau’s Journal ever published, is the first to capture the scope, rhythms, and variety of the work as a whole. Ranging freely over the world at large, the Journal is no less devoted to the life within. As Thoreau says, “It is in vain to write on the seasons unless you have the seasons in you.”

Author : Laura Dassow Walls
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226344690

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Henry David Thoreau by Laura Dassow Walls Pdf

"[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 : New York : Dover
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UOM:39015008434006

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A Writer's Journal by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486144689

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Selections from the Journals by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

Masterly meditations on man, society, nature and many other subjects — expressed with verve and vigor in beautiful, poetic prose. Perfect entrée to Thoreau's thought. Introduction.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0393059413

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Letters to a Spiritual Seeker by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

The writing of Henry David Thoreau is as full of life today as it was when he published Walden one hundred years ago. In seeking to understand nature, Thoreau sought to "lead a fresh, simple life with God." In 1848 a seeker named Harrison Blake, yearning for a spiritual life of his own, asked the then-fledgling writer for guidance. The fifty letters that ensued, collected here for the first time in their own volume by Thoreau specialist Bradley P. Dean, are by turns earnest, oracular, witty, playful, practical— and deeply insightful and inspiring, as one would expect from America's best prose stylist and great moral philosopher.