David B. Suchoff (essay date fall 1982)
SOURCE: Suchoff, David B. “‘A More Conscious Silence’: Friendship and Language in Thoreau's Week.” ELH 49, no. 3 (fall 1982): 673‐87.
[In the following essay, Suchoff contends that Thoreau sought to understand the mystery of nature through friendship rather than language.]
“It is difficult to begin without borrowing,” Thoreau tells us as he relates the borrowing of an ax to found his cabin at Walden, “but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow men to have an...
Source: Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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