Walden and Civil Disobedience PDF Henry David Thoreau

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In the very inventiveness of his prose, and especially in his effort to use words in ways that recapture forgotten aspects of their original meanings, Thoreau’s prose style thus aims to restore the attentive reader to what Emerson, in his introduction to Nature, calls an “original relation to the universe.”

There is, of course, considerable irony in Thoreau’s posture of radical independence and original expression. James Russell Lowell, one of the leading literary authorities of the mid- to late-nineteenth century, rightly pointed out that Thoreau’s “notion of an absolute originality ... is an absurdity” and that a man “cannot escape in thought, any more than he can in language, from the past and the present” (Lowell, Literary Essays, vol. 1, pp. 372—373). As Lowell memorably reminded his readers, Thoreau “squatted on another man’s land; he borrows an

• Book Name: Walden and Civil Disobedience pdf
• Author Name Henry David Thoreau
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 2011

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