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Thoreau, Henry David,--1817-1862.--Walden, Thoreau, Henry David,--1817-1862--Symbolism, Emerson, Ralph Waldo,--1803-1882--Influence, Tree of life in literature, Nature in literature.
publication date
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1990
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PS3048.B6 1990eb
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818/.303
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Thoreau, Henry David,--1817-1862.--Walden, Thoreau, Henry David,--1817-1862--Symbolism, Emerson, Ralph Waldo,--1803-1882--Influence, Tree of life in literature, Nature in literature.
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The Roots of Walden and the Tree of Life
Gordon V. Boudreau
Vanderbilt University Press Nashville / 1990
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Copyright 1990 by Gordon V. Boudreau Published in 1990 by Vanderbilt University Press Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Boudreau, Gordon V., 1929 The roots of Walden and the tree of life / Gordon V. Boudreau. p. cm. ISBN 0-8265-1235-6 (alk. paper) Includes bibliographical references. 1. Thoreau, Henry David, 18171862. Walden. 2. Thoreau, Henry David, 18171862Symbolism. 3. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 18031882 InfluenceThoreau. 4. Tree of life in literature. 5. Nature in literature. I. Title. PS3048. B6 1990 818.303dc20 90-12297 CIP
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For Grace... ... and the Holy Spirit
Now the parable is this: the seed is the word of God. Luke 8:11
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CONTENTS
Abbreviations
vii
Preface
ix
I. Prologue
1 Of Passages and Determination
1
II. Half Way the Law of Currents
2 Emerson: With Frost in the Current
15
3 Thoreau: With Frost at the Source
31
4 A Week: Lapse of the Current, Tree of the Fall
45
III. Half Way That of Vegetation
5 Johnswort: The Roots of Walden
63
6 Walden: A Radical Myth
78
7 Springs to Remember
89
8 Walden: A Spring of Springs
105
IV. Leavings from the Deep Cut
9 Concentration: The Bank Untangled
117
10 Tree of Life: The Medium and the Message
135
11 Instrumental Dreams: The Plectrum and the Harp
148
V. Epilogue: After Walden
12 RubricsA Brown StudyGleanings
169
Appendix A
193
Appendix B
196
Appendix C
200
Notes
205
Bibliography
225
Index
235
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WRITINGS OF THOREAU CITED PARENTHETICALLY IN THE TEXT, BY ABBREVIATION
C
The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau. Edited by Walter Harding and Carl Bode. New York: New York Univ. Press, 1958.
CC
Cape Cod. Edited by Joseph J. Moldenhauer. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1988.
CP
Collected Poems of Henry Thoreau. Enlarged ed. Edited by Carl Bode. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1964.
EEM
Early Essays and Miscellanies. Edited by Joseph J. Moldenhauer and Edwin Moser, with Alexander C. Kern. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1975.
Huck
"Huckleberries." Edited by Leo Stoller. 1970. Reprinted in The Natural History Essays. Edited by Robert Sattelmeyer. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1980.
J
The Journal. Vols. 720 of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. 20 vols. Walden Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906; herein cited by the alternate numbering, IXIV.*
LJ
Consciousness in Concord: The Text of Thoreau's Hitherto "Lost Journal" (18401841) Together with Notes and a Commentary. Edited by Perry Miller. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959.
MW
The Maine Woods. Edited by Joseph J. Moldenhauer. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1972.
PJ, I
Journal, Volume 1: 18371844. Edited by Elizabeth Hall Witherell, William L. Howarth, Robert Sattelmeyer, and Thomas Blanding. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1981.*
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