Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (675 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520063465 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landscape. In this new biography, based on a reexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on a retracing of his trips, Robert Richardson offers a view of Thoreau's life and achievement in their full nineteenth century context.
Thomas Lapins said A biography and biographer equal to this man and his life. As a young man my Holy Trinity was: Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman. Emerson's essays are pure poetry; Thoreau's "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience" became a blueprint on how to live and why to write; and Whitman's life and "Leaves Of Grass" taught me about myself."A Life Of The Mind" filled each page with the authenticity and richness of a life well lived. Thoreau, the humanness, the naturalist, the friend and son; the poet of the unraveling, entangled soul beating within the hum. Window Into Thoreau's Mind and World Robert D. Richardson takes the busy-bodied world of Thoreau and places each of his accomplishments into context starting with their respective intellectual origin. In the process of doing this, Richardson constructs the world of Thoreau's Concord and creates it for us vividly and realistically. This is by far the best Thoreau bio out there and serves a perfect book-end with his Emerson bio, The Mind On Fire.. Henry David Thoreau: A Life of the Mind With such a sparse collection of Thoreau biographies out there, we're fortunate that Robert Richardson Jr. was able to paint such an intimate portrait of the man. As mentioned in the Preface of the book, this is an intellectual biography. It is a well composed account of Thoreau's life and his insatiable, systematic approach to learning. Through his exemplary writing, Richardson is able to explain the intricacies of Thoreau and the complex subjects that influenced him in a wa
Richardson's critical discussions of the journals, "Walden, "Cape Cod, and the other works are invariably illuminating and cast a new light on Thoreau's sometimes cross-grained but fascinating personality." --"The Boston Globe . "A splendidly written book