American Literature in the Colonial And National Periods
The book American Literature in the Colonial And National Periods was written by author Sears, Lorenzo, 1838-1916 Here you can read free online of American Literature in the Colonial And National Periods book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is American Literature in the Colonial And National Periods a good or bad book?
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By the strictest economies his family helped him through Harvard, where Henry David Thoreau 339 he devoted himself to such studies as pleased him best. After graduation he earned a bare living by surveying, gardening, and fence building, contriving always to get half of each day off to search fields and streams and woods for any new or old word which nature had to say to him. In this way he became a practical naturalist without troubling himself with the scientific side of research, as he had a...lways been a lover of nature's common ways, seeing in them a hundred things which he fancied that most men do not observe. In this he was frequently mistaken, as in other things, where he supposed himself to be the original discoverer. However, his own observa- tion was always as good to him as a first-class discovery, and he made the most of it. A great part of his charm as a writer is the naive simplicity with which he describes things as new that several other observers were already familiar with.
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