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My Friend, My Friend The Story of Thoreau's Relationship with Emerson

My Friend, My Friend The Story of Thoreau's Relationship with Emerson

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by Harmon Smith

Book Details

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1999
Language: en
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9781558492936
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High confidence: 90%

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Description

Henry David Thoreau was a twenty-year-old scholarship student at Harvard when he met Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837. Emerson, fourteen years Thoreau's senior and independently wealthy, had recently shaken the intellectual world of New England with the publication of Nature. Despite the disparity in their circumstances, Thoreau and Emerson quickly formed a close relationship that lasted until Thoreau's death at the age of forty-four. This book tells the story of their friendship.

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Biography & AutobiographyHistoricalLiterary FiguresLiterary CriticismAmericanPoetrySocial Science

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