Thoreau and the language of trees /

Thoreau and the language of trees /

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"Trees were central to Henry David Thoreau's creativity as a writer, his work as a naturalist, his thought and his inner life. His portraits of them were so perfect, it was as if he could to see the sap flowing beneath their bark. When Thoreau wrote that the poet loves the pine tree as his...

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Main Author: Higgins, Richard, 1952- (Author, Photographer)
Other Authors: Richardson, Robert D., 1934-2020 (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862 > Criticism and interpretation.
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862 > Knowledge > Natural history.
Trees in literature.
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : speaking the language of trees
  • An eye for trees
  • A heart for trees
  • A poet's trees
  • A mind for trees
  • A soul for trees
  • My emblem, the pine
  • Knighting elms
  • A kingdom of primitive oaks
  • Transformed by snow
  • In a barque of bark.

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