Author: THOREAU, HENRY DAVID.
Title: October, or Autumnal Tints. Watercolors by Lincoln Perry.
Description: 8vo; pp. 127; notes, numerous colour full-page illustrations of watercolours by Lincoln Perry; original boards, dustjacket;, bookplate, a very good copy. New York, London, W. W. Norton & Company, (2012). Henry D. Thoreau was one of America's best prose stylist and great moral philosophers. In the winter of 1859 - 1860, the author organized a decade's worth of journal entries into a seasonal chronology, which inspired a lecture. .A few years later, as he lay dying, he polished the lecture into an essay to be published. This his last essay is an ecstatic meditation on fall not as the season of death and decay but as a time of ripeness, harvest, and new life spring from old. An accompanying essay by acclaimed Thoreau scholar Robert D. Richardson reveals the influence of ancient Indian scripture and the early, tragic deaths of Thoreau's brother and Emerson's son on Thoreau's philosophy..

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