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Persius (search for this): chapter 1.1
morning pasture, of the canal boatmen, of the lockmen's house, and the small-voiced but sincere hospitality of the Yankee housewife offering the obsolete refreshment of molasses and ginger, read like pages Irving forgot to put into The sketch Book. These things are seen with the naturalist's clear grave eyes and recorded in plain words with no attempt at oracular profundity. For the sake of more such true pictures of reality, how gladly would the modern reader forego the disquisitions on Persius and Ossian. The next year, 1850, Thoreau and his friend Channing made a brief raid across the border into Quebec, though the record of his experience was not published until 1866, with the title A Yankee in Canada. Stevenson found the book dull. Still, it has an interest of its own for the light it sheds on Thoreau's peculiar temperament, and particularly on his robust Americanism, a sentiment based on traditional dislike of Britain and on contempt for monarchy as an effete institution
Simonides (search for this): chapter 1.1
nd fifties of the nineteenth century. This large and solid academic basis for Thoreau's culture is not generally observed. His devotion to the Greeks rings truer than his various utterances on Indian literature and philosophy. Besides, he was well seen in the English classics from Chaucer downwards. A few pages of A Week yield quotations from Emerson, Ovid, Quarles, Channing, Relations des Jesuits, Gower, Lydgate, Virgil, Tennyson, Percy's Reliques, Byron, Milton, Shakespeare, Spenser, Simonides. As Lowell remarks, His literature was extensive and recondite. The truth is, Thoreau was a man of letters, whose great ambition was to study and to write books. During and after his college career, Thoreau taught school, like the hero of Elsie Venner. He is quite frank about this episode. As I did not teach for the good of my fellow-men, but simply for a livelihood, this was a failure. Brief as was his apprenticeship to the schoolmaster trade, one might possibly conjecture that it
R. W. Emerson (search for this): chapter 1.1
but he was also a wild man, a faun; he became Emerson's man, and—although it is rather difficult to A few pages of A Week yield quotations from Emerson, Ovid, Quarles, Channing, Relations des Jesui1841, to May, 1843, which Thoreau spent under Emerson's roof. By the time Thoreau left Harvard, EmEmerson had become a power in the spiritual life of America. His brief career as a Unitarian ministeetter to Carlyle. Thoreau became a member of Emerson's household, apparently as general help, a ref in terms too deep for me. The imitation of Emerson's poetry is even more marked and results in wit in mere contact with such a personality as Emerson, much more in continual and close intercourseus to thought must have been most potent, and Emerson's influence could not but stiffen Thoreau in country except by hating some other country. Emerson defines Thoreau almost in these terms: Notence as much as ever, and regret nothing. Emerson has written an appreciation of Thoreau with i[4 more...]
Edmund Spenser (search for this): chapter 1.1
forties and fifties of the nineteenth century. This large and solid academic basis for Thoreau's culture is not generally observed. His devotion to the Greeks rings truer than his various utterances on Indian literature and philosophy. Besides, he was well seen in the English classics from Chaucer downwards. A few pages of A Week yield quotations from Emerson, Ovid, Quarles, Channing, Relations des Jesuits, Gower, Lydgate, Virgil, Tennyson, Percy's Reliques, Byron, Milton, Shakespeare, Spenser, Simonides. As Lowell remarks, His literature was extensive and recondite. The truth is, Thoreau was a man of letters, whose great ambition was to study and to write books. During and after his college career, Thoreau taught school, like the hero of Elsie Venner. He is quite frank about this episode. As I did not teach for the good of my fellow-men, but simply for a livelihood, this was a failure. Brief as was his apprenticeship to the schoolmaster trade, one might possibly conjectu
Harvard (search for this): chapter 1.1
nry Thoreau in Walden wood is the same as the mariner of York on the Island of Desolation; he represents once more the struggle of primitive man to obtain food and shelter, in fact the epic of civilization. The interest of the theme is perennial. Walden is also the memorial of an American faun, of a wild man who lived in the woods, who carried an umbrella like Robinson Crusoe, to weatherfend his head, and used a microscope to study insects with. About the same time, just after leaving Harvard, Thoreau found his first arrowhead and began his first journal, and the two streams of tendency ran side by side in his nature till the end. Intercourse with nature was even more necessary to Thoreau than intercourse with books. Intercourse with human beings he thought he did not need, but he was always tramping off to the village for a chat. He was not a real solitary, for visitors were always coming to view the progress of the odd experiment in living. Still Thoreau differed widely fro
Henry Thoreau (search for this): chapter 1.1
ury. This large and solid academic basis for Thoreau's culture is not generally observed. His devof that time had no slight effect in moulding Thoreau's character and determining his bent. His more marked and results in what Lowell calls Thoreau's worsification. He had no candid friend to who considers it the most significant act of Thoreau, and more important than his retreat in Waldesure for pursuits they could not comprehend. Thoreau is a prophet of the simple life, perhaps the wn colourless with age. The truth is that Thoreau with all his genuine appreciation of the clasn accounts for the artistic failure. Where Thoreau is not the transcendental essayist, but the fy hating some other country. Emerson defines Thoreau almost in these terms: No truer American ly explain to himself. The reason is that Henry Thoreau in Walden wood is the same as the mariner always be of more interest to the admirer of Thoreau and the student of literature than to the gen[48 more...]
Defoe (search for this): chapter 1.1
an Irish labourer's shanty, transported the materials to a new site and raised the frame, appeal to the open-air instinct of every man. Even how he maintained the fire on the hearth, and grubbed out the fat pine roots to feed it, are matters of absorbing interest. His struggle with the weeds and poor soil of the two-acre patch on which he raised his beans and potatoes, every item of his various accounts, his food, his daily routine, his house-cleaning, have the fascination of a narrative by Defoe. The reader follows the solitary in his swim across the lake, or through the wood to the village, or about the hut, or along the rows of beans, with a zest he can hardly explain to himself. The reason is that Henry Thoreau in Walden wood is the same as the mariner of York on the Island of Desolation; he represents once more the struggle of primitive man to obtain food and shelter, in fact the epic of civilization. The interest of the theme is perennial. Walden is also the memorial of a
William Wordsworth (search for this): chapter 1.1
oet, and he is surpassed by not a few observers of nature, who have had the stimulus of Darwin. The merely pictorial in nature does not much interest him, probably because he had seen no pictures. To Thoreau nature is no divinity as she is to Wordsworth; she is simply the pleasantest of companions, or rather the pleasantest environment for a natural man. In a house, in a town, he is like a creature caged. It is characteristic that after swimming across the lake, he would sit in his doorway all morning, in a wise passiveness, as Wordsworth would term it. So wild creatures live in the wild, when not hunger-driven. The wild things found him to be of their own kind; a mouse made friends with him, a hen partridge led her brood about his hut, he could take a fish out of the water in his hand. Thoreau is perhaps the first to suggest the pleasure of hunting animals without a gun, of learning about them without any desire to kill. He was not influenced by Darwin, or such a conception as t
David Henry Thoreau (search for this): chapter 1.1
Chapter 10: Thoreau The life of a village community is not seldom enriched by the inclusion of a rebel, an original who refuses obstinately to conform to type, and succeeds in following out his idea, in contrast to the humdrum routine of his fellows. When the community happens to be Concord, the picturesque and historic villaebel happens to be an American faun, the conjunction must result in no ordinary enrichment. There on 12 July, 1817, just after the second war with Britain, David Henry Thoreau was born to a small farmer and artisan who kept a shop and painted signs. The French-looking surname came by way of the Channel Islands, for the author's grandfather was born in Jersey, and, in spite of his British origin, had served as a sailor in a Continental privateer. Thoreau passed his life in the village of his birth, and now his name is indissolubly associated with it. For a generation which plumes itself upon its breadth, no slight effort is needed to picture the life of
Barzillai Frost (search for this): chapter 1.1
are comfortably located in your native town, as the guardian of its children, in the immediate vicinity, I suppose, of one of our most distinguished apostles of the future, R. W. Emerson, and situated under the ministry of our old friend Reverend Barzillai Frost, to whom please make my remembrances. It does not appear that Thoreau after reaching manhood was ever situated under the ministry of the Reverend Barzillai Frost. In Civil Disobedience, he writes: Some years ago, the State met mthe Reverend Barzillai Frost. In Civil Disobedience, he writes: Some years ago, the State met me on behalf of the Church and commanded me to pay a certain sum toward the support of a clergyman, whose preaching my father attended, but never I myself. Pay it said, or be locked up in jail. I declined to pay. But unfortunately, another man saw fit to pay it. The recusant even rendered the authorities a reason in writing for his recusancy. Know all men by these presents that I Henry Thoreau do not wish to be regarded as a member of any incorporated society which I have not joined.
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