Excerpt from The Personality of Thoreau True, Lowell, who printed this anonymously in 1848, left the two Concord names blank; but those who read what the younger friends of Emerson had then published - Channing two volumes of verse and some prose in the Dial, and Thoreau his Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers in part, in the Dial, with other papers, a few original verses, and some translations from the Greek - could not doubt for whom these shafts of satire were meant. The points of resemblance between the written ...
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Excerpt from The Personality of Thoreau True, Lowell, who printed this anonymously in 1848, left the two Concord names blank; but those who read what the younger friends of Emerson had then published - Channing two volumes of verse and some prose in the Dial, and Thoreau his Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers in part, in the Dial, with other papers, a few original verses, and some translations from the Greek - could not doubt for whom these shafts of satire were meant. The points of resemblance between the written style of Charming or of Thoreau and that of Emer son, whether in verse or prose, were very few; but a like-mindedness existed among the three, and careless or prejudiced observers, like young Russell Lowell, fancied resemblances and bor rowings where none could afterwards be seen. Even so did others fancy a resemblance between Emerson and Carlyle, which Lowell, in the same. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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