In “Going to Walden,” Mary Oliver—understanding Thoreau in a deep way—refuses to, in fact, go there.
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Tag Archives: Henry David Thoreau
Wendell Berry’s Sabbath Vision
In this fine talk Andrea Sanders explores Wendell Berry’s vision of Sabbath, with slide glances at Dillard, Thoreau, Dickinson, and others.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Sabbath Poems", "That's how the light gets in", "The World Is Too Much with Us", Andrea Sanders, Annie Dillard, Emily Dickinson, Leonard Cohen, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walden, Wendell Berry, William Wordsworth Comments closed
Here I Bloom for a Short Hour Unseen
In “Sic Vita” Thoreau uses the image of plucked flowers to wrestle with the meaning of life and death.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Each and All", "They Are All Gone into the World of Light", "Sic Vita", existential wrestling, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Ralph Waldo Emerson Comments closed
Thoreau To Obama: Play More Golf
Thoreau would criticize contemporary Americans for working too hard.
Robin Williams Made Poetry Cool
Robin Williams gave us one of cinema’s greatest depictions of a literature teacher.
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The Zen of an Old Growth Forest
Biologist David Haskell approaches forests in a way that is both scientific and poetic.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Each and All", "Flower in the Crannied Wall", Alfred Lord Tennyson, David Haskell, forest, Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Tibetan Buddhism Comments closed
The Hell of Doing Whatever We Feel Like
John Wilmot’s poetry stands as a warning against living only for self.
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