“Although these early essays can be read as somewhat romantic literary descriptions, Thoreau has already begun to inject a philosophical edge into his writing.” By the time Thoreau published “A Winter Walk” in 1843, he had developed “his naturalistic writing in the direction it later took in Walden,” as one source summarizes. The magazine’s undeniable impact on American literary history belies the length of its existence it folded four years later, but it was a cornerstone for the group of writers who had come to be known (at first, pejoratively) as the Transcendentalists. His early essays and poems began appearing regularly in The Dial, a journal founded in 1840 by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller. Web store price: $32.00Henry David Thoreau took up writing the year after Ellen Sewall turned down his proposal of marriage. Thoreau: A Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod “ A Wind-Storm in the Forests,” John Muir.Information about The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion (Virginia Commonwealth University) Henry David Thoreau and James Thomson: biographical essays (Poetry Foundation)
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