CONSCIOUSNESS IN CONCORD

by Perry Miller ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 23, 1958

This is ""The Text of Thoreau's Hitherto 'Lost Journal' Together with Notes and a Commentary"" by the author. This third volume of the Journal covers the months from July 1840 to January 1841 when Thoreau was 23, three years after his graduation from Harvard. During the time of this journal Henry was teaching in the private school which he and his older brother John had organized but he makes no mention of this in the journal. His concerns at this point, though composed in a several moods and different contexts, are with consciousness -- of himself, of death and of that particular brand of Transcendentalist friendship. This effort is a scholarly probing of Thoreau's delicate, fragile faculty for savoring life, a careful delineation of the unspontaneously fashioned, highly contrived thoughts of that grand misfit. Special appeal.

Pub Date: June 23, 1958

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 1958

Categories: NONFICTION