![]() It has been edited by Andrew Steeves with annotations which provide the sources of, and context for, Thoreau’s many quotations and allusions. This Gaspereau Press edition is based on the text Thoreau prepared for publication in Atlantic Monthly shortly before his death in 1862. ![]() ![]() Thoreau seems to have considered the essay a turning point in his writing, calling it “a sort of introduction to all that I may write hereafter.” Beginning with the chief characteristics of a saunter and a lament for those of his neighbours stuck indoors and in town, Thoreau then turns to the matter of choosing a direction and, once he has set off, speaks to the quality of the wilderness in his country, the expression of wilderness and wildness in literature, and the process of learning, among other things. ![]() It is a treatise inspired by the author’s habit of working in the mornings and devoting the afternoons to local explorations, thinking, observation and exercise-that is, walking. Written in 1851 by one of America’s most influential thinkers, “Walking, or the Wild” was a lecture Henry David Thoreau delivered frequently throughout the 1850s. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |