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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Page 51
... October 3 and moved off into the world of their new life together . Caroline wondered why Emerson paid her " so many pretty compliments , " suggesting that his manner toward her had begun to raise questions in her mind . Margaret ...
... October 3 and moved off into the world of their new life together . Caroline wondered why Emerson paid her " so many pretty compliments , " suggesting that his manner toward her had begun to raise questions in her mind . Margaret ...
Page 174
... October 30 in the town hall over the objections of Concord's selectmen who refused to order the bell rung at the hall to announce the meeting . Emerson , concerning himself at first primarily with Franklin Sanborn's di- lemma , acted ...
... October 30 in the town hall over the objections of Concord's selectmen who refused to order the bell rung at the hall to announce the meeting . Emerson , concerning himself at first primarily with Franklin Sanborn's di- lemma , acted ...
Page 207
... ( October 1974 ) : 414-28 . " Eight Lowell Letters from Concord in 1838. ” Illinois Quarterly 38 ( winter 1975 ) : 20-42 . “ Frederick Henry Hedge and the Failure of Transcendentalism . ” Harvard Library Bulletin 23 , no . 4 ( October ...
... ( October 1974 ) : 414-28 . " Eight Lowell Letters from Concord in 1838. ” Illinois Quarterly 38 ( winter 1975 ) : 20-42 . “ Frederick Henry Hedge and the Failure of Transcendentalism . ” Harvard Library Bulletin 23 , no . 4 ( October ...
Contents
An Extraordinary Young Man | 5 |
The Beautiful and the Brave | 38 |
II | 144 |
Copyright | |
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