A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851Penguin, 01/12/1993 - 368 من الصفحات 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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... nature was tested by Thoreau between 1845 and 1847 , when he lived for twenty - six months in a homemade hut at Walden Pond . While living at Walden , Thoreau worked on the two books published during his lifetime : Walden ( 1854 ) and A ...
... nature was tested by Thoreau between 1845 and 1847 , when he lived for twenty - six months in a homemade hut at Walden Pond . While living at Walden , Thoreau worked on the two books published during his lifetime : Walden ( 1854 ) and A ...
الصفحة xi
... the rhythms of life and nature because its observations were always made in the present , and it could preserve such moments for later consideration . That this process of keeping time was for Thoreau a form of art , INTRODUCTION xi.
... the rhythms of life and nature because its observations were always made in the present , and it could preserve such moments for later consideration . That this process of keeping time was for Thoreau a form of art , INTRODUCTION xi.
الصفحة xii
... natural phenomena , thereby anticipating the Journal's later use in developing a grand calendar of nature that remained incomplete at his death . Such a calendar is one of several long - term natural history projects whose development ...
... natural phenomena , thereby anticipating the Journal's later use in developing a grand calendar of nature that remained incomplete at his death . Such a calendar is one of several long - term natural history projects whose development ...
الصفحة xiii
... nature's timeless , mythic dimension . As he writes on September 7th , " the chaster light of the moon . . . tells of . . . an antiquity superior ... natural world , the night revealed nature's most fundamental structures . INTRODUCTION xiii.
... nature's timeless , mythic dimension . As he writes on September 7th , " the chaster light of the moon . . . tells of . . . an antiquity superior ... natural world , the night revealed nature's most fundamental structures . INTRODUCTION xiii.
الصفحة xiv
... nature intensifies . Readers of this vol- ume will note his rapt attention during 1851 to a host of natural phe- nomena : trees ( especially during the spring months ) , reflections in water , ice formations , sunsets , and , most of ...
... nature intensifies . Readers of this vol- ume will note his rapt attention during 1851 to a host of natural phe- nomena : trees ( especially during the spring months ) , reflections in water , ice formations , sunsets , and , most of ...
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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