Emerson and Thoreau are the most celebrated odd couple of
nineteenth-century American literature. Appearing to play the roles
of benign mentor and eager disciple, they can also be seen as
bitter rivals: America's foremost literary statesman, protective of
his reputation, and an ambitious and sometimes refractory protege.
The truth, Joel Porte maintains, is that Emerson and Thoreau were
complementary literary geniuses, mutually inspiring and
inspired.
In this book of essays, Porte focuses on Emerson and Thoreau as
"writers. "He traces their individual achievements and their points
of intersection, arguing that both men, starting from a shared
belief in the importance of "self-culture," produced a body of
writing that helped move a decidedly provincial New England
readership into the broader arena of international culture. It is a
book that will appeal to all readers interested in the writings of
Emerson and Thoreau.
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