Faith in a Seed (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry David Thoreau
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Natural history
- Time of Work: The mid-nineteenth century
- Setting: Principally Concord, Massachusetts
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Nature writing
- Subjects: Nature, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, New England, Conservatism, Evolution, Earth sciences
- Locales: Concord, MA
This publication of Henry David Thoreau’s late writings will prompt thoughtful readers to reconsider their places in both the natural and the intellectual world. In the introduction, Robert D. Richardson, Jr., contrasts the poet-naturalist author of Walden: Or Life in the Woods (1854) with the later Thoreau, the writer-scientist. While there is merit in considering such phases in Thoreau’s career, the distinction is a fine one. He was always both naturalist and philosopher, and no amount of scientific observation could obscure the larger issues that he always found orbiting...
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