From 1837 to 1861 Thoreau kept a journal that began as a
conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and
eventually became the principal imaginative work of his career. The
source of much of his published writing, the Journal is also a
record of both his interior life and his monumental studies of the
natural history of his native Concord, Massachusetts. In contrast
to earlier editions, the Princeton Edition reproduces the Journal
in its original and complete form, in a reading text that is free
of editorial interpolations but keyed to a comprehensive scholarly
apparatus.
Covering an annual cycle from spring 1852 to late winter 1853,
Journal 5 finds Thoreau intensely concentrating on detailed
observations of natural phenomena and on "the mysterious relation
between myself & these things" that he always strove to
understand. Increasingly, the Journal attempts to balance a new
found scientific professionalism and the accurate recording of
phenological data with a firmly rooted belief in the spiritual
correspondences that Nature reveals. Fittingly, the year of
observation ends with Thoreau pondering an invitation to join the
Association for the Advancement of Science, an invitation he
ultimately declined in order to pursue his own life studies.
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