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    The Year Is a Circle: A Celebration of Henry David Thoreau
    The Year Is a Circle: A Celebration of Henry David Thoreau
    The Year Is a Circle: A Celebration of Henry David Thoreau
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    The Year Is a Circle: A Celebration of Henry David Thoreau

    By Victor Carl Friesen

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    Henry David Thoreau is remembered as a foremost nature writer. He was an ecologist before the term was invented. A man of many parts, including social critic, he is known to have had an influence on such internationally recognized leaders as Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

    "Victor Carl Friesen, author of The Spirit of the Huckleberry, an astute analysis of Henry David Thoreau’s prose, again demonstrates his affinity for the Walden sage with this unique volume of poems and photographs. Taking a series of quotations demonstrating Thoreau’s sensuousness, he writes a poem for each and then illustrates them with outstanding colour photographs. The poems, mostly written in the blank verse form, have sturdy strength and remarkable insight into both Thoreau and nature."

    - Walter Harding, Founding Secretary, The Thoreau Society Inc., State University of New York, Genesco

    "Friesen is particularly qualified as a Thoreau scholar, for his personal interests extend well beyond literature to include natural history, a subject very much at the centre of Thoreau’s writings."

    - Canadian Book Review Annual

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDundurn
    Release dateNov 15, 2002
    ISBN9781770706897
    The Year Is a Circle: A Celebration of Henry David Thoreau
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    Victor Carl Friesen

    Victor Carl Friesen lives and writes in Rosthern, Saskatchewan, but photographs nature anywhere. The first recipient of the Alberta Book Award, he is the author of five books including The Year Is a Circle.

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      The Year Is a Circle - Victor Carl Friesen

      The Year

      is a Circle

      The Year

      is a Circle

      A Celebration of

      Henry David Thoreau

      Victor Carl Friesen

      NATURAL HERITAGE / NATURAL HISTORY INC.

      The Year is a Circle: A Celebration of Henry David Thoreau

      by Victor Carl Friesen

      Published by Natural Heritage / Natural History Inc.

      P.O. Box 95, Station O, Toronto, Ontario M4A 2M8

      Copyright © 1995 Victor Carl Friesen

      No portion of this book, with the exception of brief extracts

      for the purpose of literary or scholarly review, may be reproduced in

      any form without the permission of the publisher.

      Design: Molly Brass

      Printed and bound in Canada by Hignell Printing Limited,

      Winnipeg, Manitoba

      Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data

      Friesen, Victor Carl

      The year is a circle: a celebration of Henry David Thoreau

      Includes text by Henry David Thoreau.

      ISBN 1-896219-03-9

      1. Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 - Knowledge - Natural history.

      2. Nature in literature. 3. Nature - Pictorial works. I . Thoreau, Henry

      David, 1817-1862. II Title.

      PS3057.N3F75 1995 818’ .309

      Natural Heritage / Natural History Inc. gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Citizenship, Tourism and Recreation.

      Second printing November 1996

      For Dorothy

      Contents

      Photographs

      Preface

      Thoreau

      Introduction

      At Walden Pond

      Seasons

      Summer

      Summer Days

      June ~ On Cape Cod

      July ~ Shore Morning

      August ~ On Fair Haven Hill

      Autumn

      Autumn Afternoon

      September ~ In the Maine Woods

      October ~ A Stroll upon the Beach

      November ~ Moon Rising

      Winter

      Winter’s Onset

      December ~ Merry Blizzard

      January ~ Winter Blue

      February ~ A Winter Walk

      Spring

      Spring’s Coming

      March ~ Early Spring

      April ~ To Great Meadows

      May ~ In Concord Woods

      Conclusion

      The Richer Life

      Photographs

      frontispiece

      opposite Contents

      "the chill, / Gray ghost of dawn"

      "shaking the sun’s / Light"

      "fashioned from / The dawn into the day"

      "the pond / In evening lies"

      Summer frontispiece

      "the days grow languid"

      "softly packed with raft-like clouds"

      "atop the reedy grass"

      "sunny daytime’s realm"

      "twilight’s ethereality"

      "to landlessness"

      "genesis of my well-being"

      "its grating undulation"

      "steel-blue, still and clear"

      "a scented stillness"

      "soft shadows hold sway"

      "a cloud floats along"

      " exhalation of the shaded earth"

      " a line advancing – milky summits"

      "watching storm clouds come"

      Autumn frontispiece

      "red juices in each leaf"

      "weighted limbs of foliage"

      "amalgam of / Sensations"

      "the shower-ruined vesture of a cloud"

      "golden prolongation; / A breath

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