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I sit here this fourth of June, looking out on men and nature from this that I call my perspective window, through which all things are seen in their true relations. This is my upper empire, bounded by four walls, viz., three of boards yellow-washed, facing the north, west, and south, respectively, and the fourth of plaster, likewise yellow-washed, fronting the sunrise,&#;to say nothing of the purlieus and outlying provinces, unexplored as yet but by rats.
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Hoagland, Clayton. “The Diary of Thoreau’s ‘Gentle Boy’.” The New England Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Dec., ), pp. . Web. 09 March
The Diary of Thoreau’s “Gentle Boy”
by Clayton Hoagland
ENTERING in his Journal on August 1, , Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote:
Last night came to me a beautiful poem from Henry Thoreau, “Sympathy.” The purest strain, and the loftiest, I think, that has yet pealed from this unpoetic American forest. I hear his verses with as much triumph as I point to my Guido when they praise half-poets and half-painters.
Emerson was then thirty-five, Thoreau just turned twenty-two, and two years out of Harvard. While Emerson was Concord’s celebrity, Henry was but a promising essayist. Walden was still fifteen years in the future.
The poem by Thoreau which
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&#;Henry David Thoreau: A Life&#; A book by Laura Dassow Walls
This new biography is the masterpiece that the gadfly of youthful America deserves. I have been reading Henry David Thoreau and reading about him for 40 years; I&#;ve written a book about him myself. Yet often I responded to Laura Dassow Walls&#; compelling narrative with mutterings such as &#;I never knew that&#; and &#;I hadn&#;t thought of it that way.&#; I found myself caught up in these New England lives all over again.
On a foundation of rigorous scholarship, Walls, a professor of English at Notre Dame, resurrects Thoreau&#;s life with a novelist&#;s sympathy and pacing. Most of her previous books are about either the American Transcendentalists or the explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, and her broad grasp of the era&#;s scientific issues integrates Thoreau&#;s dawning ecological conscience into a better-understood context than most writers on the topic can provide.
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Every biographer faces the challenge of portraying and deciphering a subject&#;s parents &#; their history, their mythic resonance throughout the subject&#;s life. Walls does both with aplomb. &#;John Thoreau would be remembered as a quiet man,&#
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