Tag: Henry David Thoreau

Of pine and man: Reflecting on Henry David Thoreau’s sentiment in “Chesuncook”

James MathewRobert PavlikMilwaukee, Wisconsin, United States It is the living spirit of the tree, not its spirit of turpentine, with which I sympathize, and which heals my cuts. It is as immortal as I am, and perchance will go to as high a heaven, there to tower above me still.1 Henry David Thoreau’s article “Chesuncook”…

March 4, 2017
Abbott Handerson Thayer’s art and fin de siècle American culture

Gregory RuteckiCleveland, Ohio, United States Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849–1921) straddled the fin de siècle, and with his brush preserved an American counterculture for posterity. His variegated oeuvre reflects substantive reflections of his period’s medical and religious culture, as well as the earliest American naturalism. His was a momentous time as science unfolded the implications of…

January 23, 2017

Of pine and man: Reflecting on Henry David Thoreau’s sentiment in “Chesuncook”