2020年4月20日 星期一

Henry David Thoreau：...AS CHANTICLEER IN THE MORNING, STANDING ON HIS ROOST, IF ONLY TO WAKE MY NEIGHBORS UP.



Willingness to undertake new ventures; initiative: "Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs" (Henry David Thoreau).
 Henry David Thoreau indicates when he calls his generation "a race of tit-men." 
 Our woods are sylvan, and their inhabitants woodmen and rustics... — Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist.
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 Our art critic Holland Cotter looks to Henry David Thoreau for some lessons on how to be constructive while alone



About Walden

In some editions of Walden, there is included an inscription page which precedes the first chapter. On this page, the narrator of Walden declares:

I DO NOT PROPOSE TO WRITE AN ODE TO DEJECTION, BUT TO BRAG AS LUSTILY AS CHANTICLEER IN THE MORNING, STANDING ON HIS ROOST, IF ONLY TO WAKE MY NEIGHBORS UP.

Henry David Thoreau: A Life
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The Morgan Library & Museum


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Join Laura Dassow Walls, author of the forthcoming Henry David Thoreau: A Life, for an illustrated presentation on the profound, inspiring complexity of Henry David Thoreau. Drawing on Thoreau’s copious writings, published and unpublished, Walls presents a Thoreau with all his quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the ambitious Harvard College student; and the ecstatic visionary who closed Walden with an account of the regenerative power of the Cosmos.


重新慢慢建立Henry David Thoreau的書單. 此君的日記真功夫


"Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."
--from WALDEN by Henry David Thoreau


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.[1] He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.

Works

Henry David Thoreau
Maxham daguerreotype of Henry David Thoreau, aged 39, made in 1856
Thoreau's signature

Bird eggs found by Thoreau and given to the Boston Society of Natural History. Those in the nest are of yellow warbler, the other two of red-tailed hawk

The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau

  • Online Publication Date:
  • May 2006
  • Print Publication Year:
  • 1995




'Woodsburner'

By JOHN PIPKIN
Reviewed by BRENDA WINEAPPLE

This novel of a young Thoreau setting fire to 300 acres of Concord forest is in effect a wily prequel to “Walden.”
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