Vertraute Briefe
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- Status:
- Vollständiges Werk
- Autorschaft:
- Vom Autor verfasst
- Zustand des Textes:
- Sauberer Text · 4 unlesbare Passagen, von den Antworten ausgeschlossen
- Umfang:
- ~140.000 Wörter · 657 Passagen
Dieses Werk zitieren
- APAHenry David Thoreau. (n.d.). Vertraute Briefe. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/thoreau/familiar-letters
- MLAHenry David Thoreau. "Vertraute Briefe." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/de/works/thoreau/familiar-letters.
- ChicagoHenry David Thoreau. Vertraute Briefe. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/thoreau/familiar-letters.
Wovon es handelt
Thoreaus Briefwechsel, 1894 von Sanborn herausgegeben: der Thoreau, der an bestimmte Menschen schreibt und oft wärmer ist als der der Bücher.
Kontext und Geschichte
Da sind die Briefe an Emerson, der sein Gönner und sein Problem war; die an Harrison Blake, einen Lehrer aus Worcester, der ihn um sittlichen Rat bat und dem Thoreau dreizehn Jahre lang mit dem antwortete, was kleine Abhandlungen sind; und die an die Familie. Der bekannteste ist der, den er an Emerson schrieb, als dessen kleiner Sohn starb, und der kalt klingt, bis man begreift, was er sagt. Zweierlei ist im Sinn zu behalten: dass dies eine Ausgabe des 19. Jahrhunderts ist, nach den Maßstäben jener Zeit gemacht, und dass Sanborn ein Herausgeber mit freier Hand war — er kürzte, fügte zusammen und besserte bisweilen aus —, was die spätere Wissenschaft rückgängig machen musste.
Redaktioneller Kontext, keine zitierfähige Quelle: anders als die Passagen des Werks lassen sich diese Angaben nicht am Korpus überprüfen.
It was a happy thought of Thoreau's friend Ellery Channing, himself a poet, to style our Concord hermit the "poet-naturalist;" for there seemed to be no year of his life and no hour of his day when Nature did not whisper some secret in his ear,--so intimate was he with her from childhood. In another connection, speaking of natural beauty, Channing said, "There is Thoreau,--he knows about it; give him sunshine and a handful of nuts, and he has enough." He was also a naturalist in the more customary sense,--one who studied and arranged methodically in his mind the facts of outward nature; a good botanist and ornithologist, a wise student of insects and fishes; an observer of the winds, the clouds, the seasons, and all that goes to make up what we call "weather" and "climate." Yet he was in heart a poet, and held all the accumulated knowledge of more than forty years not so much for use as for delight. As Gray's poor friend West said of himself, "like a clear-flowing stream, he reflected the beauteous prospect around;" and Mother Nature had given Thoreau for his prospect the meandering Indian river of Concord, the woodland pastures and fair lakes by which he dwelt or rambled most of his life. Born in the East Quarter of Concord, July 12, 1817, he died in the village, May 6, 1862; he was there fitted for Harvard College, which he entered in 1833, graduating in 1837; and for the rest of his life was hardly away from the town for more than a year in all. Consequently his letters to his family are few, for he was usually among them; but when separated from his elder brother John, or his sisters Helen and Sophia, he wrote to them, and these are the earliest of his letters which have been preserved. Always thoughtful for others, he has left a few facts to aid his biographer, respecting his birth and early years.…