In 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved from his parents house in
Concord, Massachusetts, to a one-room cabin on land owned by his
mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson. After 26 months he transformed his
stay in the woods into one of the most famous events in American
history. In Walden x 40, adopting Thoreau s own compositional
method, Robert B. Ray takes up several questions posed in Walden.
Thoreau developed his books from his lectures, and his lectures
from his almost-daily journal notations of the world around him,
with its fluctuating weather and appointed seasons, both forever
familiar and suddenly brand new. Ray derives his 40 brief essays
from the details of Walden itself, reading the book in the way that
Thoreau proposed to explore his own life deliberately. Ray
demonstrates that however accustomed we have grown to its lessons,
Walden continues to be as surprising as the November snowfall that,
Thoreau reports, "covered the ground... and surrounded me suddenly
with the scenery of winter.""
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