A Week on the Concord and Merrimack RiversPenguin, 01/12/1998 - 368 páginas Thoreau's account of his 1839 boat trip is a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing, essays, and lyrical poetry. Thoreau interweaves descriptions of natural phenomena, the rural landscape, and local characters with digressions on literature and philosophy, the Native American and Puritian histories of New England, the Bhagavad Gita, the imperfections of Christianity, and many other subjects. Although it shares many of the themes in Thoreau's classic Walden, A Week on the Concord offers an alternative perspective on his analaysis of the relationship between nature and culture. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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... seen in serene afternoons haunting the river . " Noting that Thoreau himself was the sole witness of the old man's final disappearance into " his low- roofed house on the skirts of the village , " he remarks : " I think nobody else saw ...
... seen in serene afternoons haunting the river . " Noting that Thoreau himself was the sole witness of the old man's final disappearance into " his low- roofed house on the skirts of the village , " he remarks : " I think nobody else saw ...
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... seen , much of the narrative work of A Week is the remembering and reconstructing of the river's lost past , and that past includes places as well as people . The transformation of such places and the erosion of their features often owe ...
... seen , much of the narrative work of A Week is the remembering and reconstructing of the river's lost past , and that past includes places as well as people . The transformation of such places and the erosion of their features often owe ...
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... seen , A Week is filled with images of people and places that have been lost ; in part , they stand as surrogates for the dead brother . Great elegies , such as Lycidas , characteristically displace and generalize grief in this way . It ...
... seen , A Week is filled with images of people and places that have been lost ; in part , they stand as surrogates for the dead brother . Great elegies , such as Lycidas , characteristically displace and generalize grief in this way . It ...
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... time , Tho- reau has found solace in the long view that the rocks ' " unchange- ableness " and their familiarity ( “ rocks which I have known ” ) have established . Seen from such a view , more continuous XX INTRODUCTION.
... time , Tho- reau has found solace in the long view that the rocks ' " unchange- ableness " and their familiarity ( “ rocks which I have known ” ) have established . Seen from such a view , more continuous XX INTRODUCTION.
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Henry David Thoreau. established . Seen from such a view , more continuous and inte- grated than that afforded by " history " —with all its short - term dislocations and perturbations - human change and even the most painful of losses ...
Henry David Thoreau. established . Seen from such a view , more continuous and inte- grated than that afforded by " history " —with all its short - term dislocations and perturbations - human change and even the most painful of losses ...
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Anacreon ancient bank beauty Billerica boat called Chaucer Chelmsford clouds Concord and Merrimack Concord River Confucius distant dreams Dunstable earth England English eyes falls feet fishes floating flowers Friend Friendship genius Giles Fletcher grass ground Haverhill hear heard heavens Henry David Thoreau hills Hooksett imagination Indians inhabitants island land length light lines lives look man's meadows Mencius Merrimack Rivers miles morning mountains Nashua nature neighbors never night noon Ossian passage passed Pawtucket Falls Penacook perchance phrase pine poem poet poetry extract Pythagoras quoted Robin Hood rocks rustling sail Salmon Brook sand seemed seen sense serene shore side silent sometimes sound speak stand stars stones stream summer things Thoreau found Thoreau indicates thou thought town translated trees true truth Tyngsborough verse voyage Walden Week wild wind woods Zoroaster