My Friend, My Friend: The Story of Thoreau's Relationship with EmersonUniversity of Massachusetts Press, 1999 - 216 pages Drawing heavily on their journals and letters, Smith chronicles the twenty-five-year association between Ralph Waldo Emerson, a financially well-placed teacher, and Henry David Thoreau, a struggling student, which began at Harvard in 1837. The relationship faltered for a while with the publication of Walden, but was renewed when Thoreau's health began to fail. 1999. |
Contents
An Extraordinary Young Man | 5 |
The Beautiful and the Brave | 38 |
II | 144 |
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