Solid Seasons [electronic resource] : The Friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jeffrey S. Cramer2019
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A thoughtfully researched, movingly presented dual-biography of two iconic
American writers, each trying to find the ideal friend with whom they could
share their journey through our imperfect world.
Any biography that concentrates on either Henry David Thoreau or Ralph Waldo
Emerson tends to diminish the other figure, but in Solid Seasons both men remain
central and equal. Through several decades of writing, friendship remained a
primary theme for them both.
Collecting extracts from the letters and journals of both men, as well as words
written about them by their contemporaries, Jeffrey S. Cramer beautifully
illustrates the full nature of their twenty-five-year dialogue. Biographers like
to point at the crisis in their friendship, focusing particularly on Thoreau's
disappointment in Emerson-rarely on Emerson's own disappointment in Thoreau-and
leaving it there, a friendship ruptured. But the solid seasons remained, as is
evident when, in 1878, Anne Burrows Gilchrist,...
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Author:
Jeffrey S. Cramer, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Counterpoint, 2019
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781640091320
Language:
English
BRN:
428660
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |