Project: Reading Thoreau’s Journal (2)

  Aug. 28—(an excerpt)   Evening.—A new moon visible in the east. I omit the unusual—the hurricanes and earthquakes—and describe the common. This has the greatest charm and is the true theme of poetry. You may have the extraordinary...

Project: Reading Thoreau’s Journal (1)

  Over the past two weeks or so, I have been reading Henry David Thoreau’s Journal extensively and have been extremely inspired by it. Despite my growing interest in this collection, though, I have found that it is Thoreau’s least-well-known work, if...