The Journal of Thoreau (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry David Thoreau
- First Published: 1906
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans
Critical Evaluation:
About Thoreau’s Journal no single statement is more appropriate than Walt Whitman’s words about his own LEAVES OF GRASS: “This no book,/Who touches this touches a man.” Thoreau began his journal on October 22, 1837, soon after he had been graduated from Harvard, apparently at the suggestion of Emerson. On the first leaf, Thoreau wrote: “’What are you doing now?’ he asked. ’Do you keep a journal?’ So I make my first entry to-day.” Practically every day thereafter, almost to the time of his death, he entered his thoughts, sometimes...
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