Tag Archives: Ralph Waldo Emerson

thoreau: letting his garden grow

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Dave

Finding a wilderness at Walden and time to develop a sturdy individualist’s philosophy… …But most mornings he devoted to his garden. His bean rows added up to more than seven miles in length and required constant weeding. What is worse, … Continue reading →

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thoreau at walden: domestic arrangements

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Dave

…At the end of his first eight months at the pond he found that he had spent a total of $8.74 for food- an average of twenty-seven cents a week. Clothing for the same period cost him only $8.40, and … Continue reading →

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thoreau: KISS

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Dave

Although his cabin was only a mile and a half from home, and his sister brought him cookies freshly baked, Henry David Thoreau did find a wilderness by Walden and time to develop a sturdy, individualist’s philosophy… …In the fall … Continue reading →

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thoreau: voluntary simplicity

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Dave

…Thoreau was in no haste to move in. Once the frame was up, he did the remaining carpentry slowly, living in the meantime with his parents and walking back and forth to the pond each day, carrying his lunch wrapped … Continue reading →

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thoreau: raise the roof

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Dave

…Thoreau began his work at the pond with a borrowed axe. It probably belonged to Bronson Alcott, although after its fame spread it was claimed by both Emerson and Channing. But from whoever he obtained it, he returned it later, … Continue reading →

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thoreau: to drive life into a corner

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Dave

…Although his cabin was only a mile and a half from home, and his sister brought him freshly baked cookies, Henry David Thoreau did find a wilderness by Walden and time to develop a sturdy, individualist’s philosophy… …Then in 1845, … Continue reading →

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on the pond

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Dave

The camper in the back yard. Although his cabin was only a mile and a half from home, and his sister brought him freshly baked cookies, Henry David Thoreau did find a wilderness by Walden and time to develop a … Continue reading →

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burton and the polygamy riddle

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Dave

…The Mormons at this time were considered a great curiosity in England. Since the murder of Joseph Smith in Illinois in 1844, and the subsequent dramatic exodus to the desert isolation of the great inland sea, the sect had flourished … Continue reading →

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scarlet fever of moral torment

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Dave

Yet for all its gloom and whisper of abominations, The Scarlet letter is among those great tales in which the spectrum of meanings runs unbroken from the clearest daylight into vibrations beyond either visions or rational interpretation. Those who wish … Continue reading →

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lust in the shadows behind her: eternal remorse

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Dave

D.H. Lawrence once described Nathaniel Hawthorne as the man that “knew disagreeable things in his inner soul.” But does it really matter if he gave us The Scarlet Letter? … What gives The Scarlet Letter its bite and terror is … Continue reading →