In “Going to Walden,” Mary Oliver—understanding Thoreau in a deep way—refuses to, in fact, go there.
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Tag Archives: Walden
To Find Your Walden, Look around You
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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, Henry David Thoreau, Leonard Cohen, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wendell Berry, William Wordsworth Comments closed
Thoreau To Obama: Play More Golf
Thoreau would criticize contemporary Americans for working too hard.
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Robin Williams Made Poetry Cool
Robin Williams gave us one of cinema’s greatest depictions of a literature teacher.
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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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