John Burroughs

Bird And Bough

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This delightful book contains a collection of beautiful poetry written by John Burroughs. A wonderful text sure to appeal to lovers of nature poetry, this anthology makes for a great addition to any personal library and is a veritable must-read for fans and collectors of Burroughs' work. Poems contained within this collection include: 'The Partridge', 'A March Glee', 'The Bluebird', 'The Song of the Toad', 'The Coming Phoebe', 'Spring Gladness', 'Early April', 'Hepatica', 'Trailing Arbutus', 'Arbutus Days', 'The Bush-Sparrow', 'The Swallow', 'Early May', 'In May', 'In Blooming Orchards', 'The Cuckoo', 'The Vesper Sparrow', 'June's Coming', 'The Hermit Thrush', 'Bobolink', and many others. This antique book was originally published in 1906, and is proudly republished now with a new introduction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gayley Press
• Seitenzahl: 84
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 119g
• ISBN-13: 9781406722116
• ISBN-10: 1406722111
• Artikelnr.: 23241079

Autorenporträt

John Burroughs (April 3, 1837 - March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the U.S. conservation movement.[1] The first of his essay collections was Wake-Robin in 1871. In the words of his biographer Edward Renehan, Burroughs' special identity was less that of a scientific naturalist than that of "a literary naturalist with a duty to record his own unique perceptions of the natural world." The result was a body of work whose resonance with the tone of its cultural moment explains both its popularity at that time, and its relative obscurity since Burroughs had his first break as a writer in the summer of 1860 when the Atlantic Monthly, then a fairly new publication, accepted his essay Expression. Editor James Russell Lowell found the essay so similar to Emerson's work that he initially thought Burroughs had plagiarized his longtime acquaintance. Poole's Index and Hill's Rhetoric, both periodical indexes, even credited Emerson as the author of the essay.[7] In 1864, Burroughs accepted a position as a clerk at the Treasury; he would eventually become a federal bank examiner, continuing in that profession into the 1880s. All the while, he continued to publish essays, and grew interested in the poetry of Walt Whitman. Burroughs met Whitman in Washington, DC in November 1863, and the two became close friends.[8] Whitman encouraged Burroughs to develop his nature writing as well as his philosophical and literary essays. In 1867, Burroughs published Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person, the first biography and critical work on the poet, which was extensively (and anonymously) revised and edited by Whitman himself before publication.[9] Four years later, the Boston house of Hurd & Houghton published Burroughs's first collection of nature essays, Wake-Robin.