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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20001001
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Henry David Thoreau. Bradley P. Dean, editor. W. W. Norton. [pound]22.00. 409 pages. ISBN 0-393-04751-2. This is the 'lost manuscript' left unfinished at Thoreau's death in 1863 and never before published. In his notes Thoreau raised his romantic attachment to 'nature' to a semireligious status and saw in it the truth he denied to orthodox Christianity. His respect for 'little things' echoed Pliny's dictum that 'nature excels in the least things'. His view of life had an 'anti-establishment' basis, something echoed, for example, in the poetry of Emily Dickinson. For the devotees ...

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