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Title: Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind by Robert D. Richardson Jr., Barry Moser ISBN: 0520063465 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: March, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: A biography and biographer equal to this man and his life
Comment: As a young man my Holy Trinity was: Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman. Emerson's essays are pure poetry; Thoreau's "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience" became a blueprint on how to live and why to write; and Whitman's life and "Leaves Of Grass" taught me about myself.
"A Life Of The Mind" filled each page with the authenticity and richness of a life well lived. Thoreau, the humanness, the naturalist, the friend and son; the poet of the unraveling, entangled soul beating within the humdrum of everyday and ordinary life, leaps from every page. I have read other biographies on Thoreau which never captured the mind and writer of "Walden". Here the man and life equalled and qualified the literature.
Richardson is more than a biographer of Thoreau; he's made from the same stock. He didn't simply tell of a man and his life, he savored, and shared in the same poetics and struggles as the man he researched. The theme of Thoreau's life was an opportunity to express his own convictions and struggles.
It was while reading an anthology of Thoreau's work that I first understood why some poets and writers must write. I came to understand how every sentence could be layered with meaning and timelessness. After reading this biography I must reread my annotated "Walden". I must sit in my backyard amongst the leaves and flowers and shapes and densities I've not paid attention to in some time.
Rating: 5
Summary: Unquestionably the best book about Thoreau
Comment: If you want to get your mind around Thoreau's mind and the more significant facts of his life, buy and read this book. Because the chapters are brief but meaty, and because Richardson's an accomplished prose stylist in his own right, this book is a joy to read and, I have found, is wonderful to come back to periodically, particularly when looking for a great way to spend ten to twenty extra minutes profitably.
Rating: 5
Summary: Window Into Thoreau's Mind and World
Comment: Robert D. Richardson takes the busy-bodied world of Thoreau and places each of his accomplishments into context starting with their respective intellectual origin. In the process of doing this, Richardson constructs the world of Thoreau's Concord and creates it for us vividly and realistically. This is by far the best Thoreau bio out there and serves a perfect book-end with his Emerson bio, The Mind On Fire.
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Title: Emerson: The Mind on Fire by Robert D. Richardson, Barry Moser ISBN: 0520206894 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Days of Henry Thoreau by Walter Harding ISBN: 0691024790 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 11 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau by Joel Myerson ISBN: 0521445949 Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt) Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Heart of Thoreau's Journals by Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard ISBN: 0486207412 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: June, 1980 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Thoreau, Emerson, and Transcendentalism (Cliffs Notes) by Leslie Perrin Wilson ISBN: 076458619X Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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