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 15
... seem no better than those that Mrs. Brown had carried to the Emerson house the previous summer . Still , Henry kept working . Emerson's suggestion that he " write out the history of his college life " as a prose exercise seems to have ...
... seem no better than those that Mrs. Brown had carried to the Emerson house the previous summer . Still , Henry kept working . Emerson's suggestion that he " write out the history of his college life " as a prose exercise seems to have ...
Page 110
... seem to be the case with Emerson . When Henry told his friend that “ the man that shoots a buffalo , lives better than he who boards at the Graham House , ” he may have made his point neatly , but in doing so he exposed a bias that was ...
... seem to be the case with Emerson . When Henry told his friend that “ the man that shoots a buffalo , lives better than he who boards at the Graham House , ” he may have made his point neatly , but in doing so he exposed a bias that was ...
Page 123
... seems even more strongly rooted in him than that voiced by Emerson when he wrote about the sub- ject . To Thoreau ... seem to warrant . " 39 In order to account for his deep need to be " transfigured and translated " by friendship ...
... seems even more strongly rooted in him than that voiced by Emerson when he wrote about the sub- ject . To Thoreau ... seem to warrant . " 39 In order to account for his deep need to be " transfigured and translated " by friendship ...
Contents
An Extraordinary Young Man | 5 |
The Beautiful and the Brave | 38 |
II | 144 |
Copyright | |
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