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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... written the next day : Mr. Lane decided , as for all time and the race , that this same love of nature— of which Henry was the champion ... —that this love was the most subtle and dangerous of sins ; a refined idolatry , much more to be ...
... written the next day : Mr. Lane decided , as for all time and the race , that this same love of nature— of which Henry was the champion ... —that this love was the most subtle and dangerous of sins ; a refined idolatry , much more to be ...
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... written . This incident left him feeling guilty but did not relieve his pent - up anger . Not long after his ... writing to you , but as you say you are about to write to me when you get my letter , I make haste on my part to get yours ...
... written . This incident left him feeling guilty but did not relieve his pent - up anger . Not long after his ... writing to you , but as you say you are about to write to me when you get my letter , I make haste on my part to get yours ...
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... written favorably of Ellery Channing's volume of verse . Learning in addition that his refusal had opened the door to a man who had recently ridiculed him in print only threw salt in the wound . Now Thoreau had a real injustice on which ...
... written favorably of Ellery Channing's volume of verse . Learning in addition that his refusal had opened the door to a man who had recently ridiculed him in print only threw salt in the wound . Now Thoreau had a real injustice on which ...
Contents
An Extraordinary Young Man | 5 |
The Beautiful and the Brave | 38 |
II | 144 |
Copyright | |
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