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NEW BOOKS EXPLORE GREAT AGE OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

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From: Evansville Courier & Press
Date: 20040718
Author:David Locker

Some 150 years ago, the publishers James T. Fields and William Ticknor agreed to publish Henry David Thoreau's second book, "Walden." This was a gamble for them, since Thoreau's first self- published book, "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," had been a resounding failure in the marketplace.

At one point in his writings, Thoreau commented that his library consisted of 1,000 volumes, 700 of which he had written.

We look back now on this time and call it an American Renaissance. Its centers were Boston, Concord, N.H., and New York.

This is the age when Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, ...

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