Letters to a Spiritual Seeker

by HENRY DAVID THOREAU

2021-01-01 12:01:03

HENRY DAVID THOREAU is famous for the literary excellence of his political and nature writings. But his friend Harrison Blake understood that the "true significance of Thoreau's] life" was in fact spiritual, and he presciently asked the then-little-... Read more
HENRY DAVID THOREAU is famous for the literary excellence of his political and nature writings. But his friend Harrison Blake understood that the "true significance of Thoreau's] life" was in fact spiritual, and he presciently asked the then-little-known Thoreau for guidance in finding a path of his own. The result was a regular exchange of letters for the remaining thirteen years of Thoreau's life, charting the evolution of his skills as a writer and thinker. The possibilities and limits of spirituality, the role of vocation in developing one's spiritual life, the importance of a direct relationship between the individual and God--Thoreau discusses these and more in his letters to Blake. The fifty letters, assembled and annotated here for the first time in their own volume by Bradley P. Dean--who has made the editing of Thoreau's manuscripts his life's work--are by turns earnest, oracular, witty, playful, practical, and deeply insightful and inspiring. Less

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File size8 X 5.45 X 0.75 in
Print pages192
PublisherW W Norton
Publication date November 1, 2005
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780393059410
Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, philosopher, and abolitionist who ...

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