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. |
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... Alcott , whose Temple School in Boston was noted for its progres- sive teaching methods . Alcott had decided against the proposal , while Brad- ford continued to vacillate . With the money Henry had borrowed from Em- erson he was in a ...
... Alcott , whose Temple School in Boston was noted for its progres- sive teaching methods . Alcott had decided against the proposal , while Brad- ford continued to vacillate . With the money Henry had borrowed from Em- erson he was in a ...
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... Alcott , Journals , 179 . 24. Thoreau , Journal , 3 : 154 . 25. Alcott , Journals , 179 . 26. R. Emerson , Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks , 9:47 . 27. R. Emerson , Letters , 3 : 338 . 28. Johnson , “ A Natural Harvest , ” ” 306 ...
... Alcott , Journals , 179 . 24. Thoreau , Journal , 3 : 154 . 25. Alcott , Journals , 179 . 26. R. Emerson , Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks , 9:47 . 27. R. Emerson , Letters , 3 : 338 . 28. Johnson , “ A Natural Harvest , ” ” 306 ...
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... Alcott , A. Bronson . Concord Days . Boston : Roberts Brothers , 1872 . The Journals of Bronson Alcott . Ed . Odell Shepard . Boston : Little , Brown , 1938 . The Letters of A. Bronson Alcott . Ed . Richard L. Herrnstadt . Ames : Iowa ...
... Alcott , A. Bronson . Concord Days . Boston : Roberts Brothers , 1872 . The Journals of Bronson Alcott . Ed . Odell Shepard . Boston : Little , Brown , 1938 . The Letters of A. Bronson Alcott . Ed . Richard L. Herrnstadt . Ames : Iowa ...
Contents
An Extraordinary Young Man | 5 |
The Beautiful and the Brave | 38 |
II | 144 |
Copyright | |
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