John Burroughs

Birds And Poets With Other Papers (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

With help from American naturalist and essayist John Burroughs, "Birds and Poets" is a set of essays. Burroughs writes approximately his love of birds and his mind on poetry and the innovative spirit. He is known for his keen perspectives of nature and the outside. In this series, Burroughs seems at how birds and literary suggestion are linked. He talks approximately the beauty and value of hen song and how the world of birds can encourage poets. Burroughs makes use of stunning language to make human beings enjoy the complicated melodies and behaviors of different forms of chickens. He does this through drawing comparisons among their herbal expressions and poets' creative mind. "Birds and Poets" writings are just like Burroughs' transcendentalist thoughts in that they stress the non-secular hyperlink between people and the natural international. He writes approximately how nature can heal and inspire, and he makes use of birds as examples of splendor and as literary idea. Burroughs' writing style is both helpful and considerate. It makes readers take a look at the sector via the eyes of a naturalist and discover thought within the simple beauty of birds.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Double 9 Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789359951836
• Artikelnr.: 73553928

Autorenporträt

John Burroughs (April 3, 1837 - March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the U.S. conservation movement. 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. 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.