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(Henry David) Thoreau in his journal.

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From: Queen's Quarterly
Date: 19960322
Author:Kerry McSweeney

ON 22 October 1837, Henry David Thoreau, then 21 years old and a recent graduate of Harvard, began to keep a journal. He continued to do so for the next quarter-century, until ill-health forced him to stop some months before he died of tuberculosis in May 1862 at the age of 44. By that time the journal had become the central work of his literary life - an enormous document of over 2 million words that is only now in the process of being published in its entirety as Thoreau originally wrote it.

It is not surprising that an educated New Englander of the day with literary and ...

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