Author: John Burroughs
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781494292539
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Biographical Sketch Introduction By Mary E. Burt Birds Bird Enemies The Tragedies of the Nests Bees An Idyl of the Honey-Bee The Pastoral Bees John Burroughs (1837-1921) was an American naturalist and essayist. He played an important role in the evolution of the U. S. conservation movement. According to biographers at the American Memory project at the Library of Congress, John Burroughs was the most important practitioner after Thoreau of that especially American literary genre, the nature essay. By the turn of the century he had become a virtual cultural institution in his own right: the Grand Old Man of Nature at a time when the American romance with the idea of nature, and the American conservation movement, had come fully into their own. His extraordinary popularity and popular visibility were sustained by a prolific stream of essay collections, beginning with Wake-Robin in 1871. In the words of his biographer Edward Renehan, Burroughs's special identity was less that of a scientific naturalist than that of "a literary naturalist with a duty to record his own unique perceptions of the natural world. " His most famous works include: Winter Sunshine (1875), Locusts and Wild Honey (1879), The Writings of John Burroughs (1895) and Far and Near (1904). "For the development of close observation and good feeling toward the common things of life, I know of no writings better than those of John Burroughs." -Mary E. Burt "Burroughs took to writing his sketches of nature, and about this time he fell in with the writings of Thoreau, which doubtless confirmed and encouraged him in this direction. But of all authors and of all men, Walt Whitman, in his personality and as a literary force, seems to have made the profoundest impression upon Mr. Burroughs, though doubtless Emerson had a greater influence on his style of writing." -Mary E. Burt
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers. With an Introduction by Mary E. Burt and a Biographical Sketch
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers
Author: John Burroughs
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368622773
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368622773
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Birds and Bees
Birds and Bees. Sharp Eyes; and Other Papers; W. an Introd. by M.E. Burt, and a Biographical Sketch
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Regents bulletin
The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
General Catalogue of the Public Library of Detroit, Mich
Author: Detroit Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description