SOLID SEASONS: THE FRIENDSHIP OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU AND RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Book ID/图书代码： 03371018C00006
English Summary/英文概要： Any biography that concentrates on either Thoreau or Emerson tends to diminish the other figure, but in Solid Seasons both men remain central and equal. Throughout their writing, friendship was always a primary theme for them both.
Referencing the letters and journals of both men, as well as words written about them by their contemporaries, Jeffrey S. Cramer beautifully illustrates the full nature of their twenty-five-year dialog. Biographers like to point at the crisis in their friendship, focusing particularly on Thoreau’s disappointment in Emerson—rarely on Emerson’s own disappointment in Thoreau, and leaving it there, a friendship ruptured. But the solid seasons remained, as is evident when, in 1878, Anne Burrows Gilchrist, the English writer and friend of Whitman, visited Emerson. She wrote that his memory was failing "as to recent names and topics but as is usual in such cases all the mental impressions that were made when he was in full vigour remain clear and strong." As they chatted Emerson called to his wife, Lydian, in the next room, "What was the name of my best friend?"
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 任何以梭罗或爱默生为核心的传记都会倾向于贬低另一个人，但在本书中，两人都占据了同样中心的位置。在他们的作品中，友谊都是双方的重要主题。
作者Jeffrey S. Cramer参考了他们两人的信件和记录以及同时代作家对他们的评论，以优美的笔触完整而生动地展现了两人长达25年的对话。传记作家们喜欢关注两人友谊的危机，尤其关注梭罗对艾默生的失望，而很少关注艾默生对梭罗的失望，而忽略了艾默生的情感，一段友谊就这样被破坏了。实际上，两人坚实的关系一直没有变。正如1878年惠特曼的朋友、英国作家Anne Burrows Gilchrist去看望艾默生时所记录的——他对最近遇到的人和事的记忆正在衰退，但对壮年时期发生的事依然记得很清楚。在他们交谈期间，艾默生问隔壁房间的太太Lydian，“我最好的朋友叫什么名字？”（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：KIRKUS REVIEWS "Editor of many works by Emerson and Thoreau and curator of collections at the Walden Woods Project’s Thoreau Institute, Cramer brings both authority and sensitivity to his biographical overview and to a judicious selection of excerpts from the men’s prolific writings . . . A deeply sympathetic dual biography."
PW runs a nice review (and includes it in its Spring 2019 announcements : "Cramer (The Quotable Thoreau) intelligently examines the bond between two famous authors in an admirable volume that mixes biography with selections of their writing . . . The words offer inquisitive readers encouragement to refresh their acquaintance with Emerson and Thoreau through this ’new view of an old story.’"
"Cramer’s lucid, spare writing and deep knowledge join one quotation to the next without seeming effort. The book’s two primary characters become familiars, each one easily approached, often via the observation of the other. Cramer has a knack for choosing and integrating his subjects’ words, and from that you get sentences and stories that are easy walking. That sums to a wonderful read, both for the general reader interested in Emerson and Thoreau, and for those who feel themselves academic family to these two famous 19th-century thinkers and writers." ―Sandy Stott, The Roost
"The abiding strength of the tie between the two writers emerges as an animating presence in both men’s journals and correspondence, which Cramer mines for quotations that allow each writer to give his own unmediated account of their friendship . . . An illuminating history of an exceptional friendship."―Booklist (starred review)
"Cramer (The Quotable Thoreau) intelligently examines the bond between two famous authors in an admirable volume that mixes biography with selections of their writing . . . The words offer inquisitive readers encouragement to refresh their acquaintance with Emerson and Thoreau through this ’new view of an old story.’" ―Publishers Weekly
"Editor of many works by Emerson and Thoreau and curator of collections at the Walden Woods Project’s Thoreau Institute, Cramer brings both authority and sensitivity to his biographical overview and to a judicious selection of excerpts from the men’s prolific writings . . . A deeply sympathetic dual biography." ―Kirkus Reviews
Lots more about the author on at www.jeffreyscramer.com.
About the Author/作者介绍： JEFFREY S. CRAMER，2004年国家户外图书奖图书《瓦尔登湖：全注本》的编辑。2017年，他担任纪录片《瓦尔登湖》的历史咨询专家。他是瓦尔登图书馆瓦尔登森林项目梭罗学院的馆长。他住在马萨诸塞州的梅纳德市。
JEFFREY S. CRAMER is the editor of Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition, winner of a 2004 National Outdoor Book Award and The Quotable Thoreau, recipient of an Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in Humanities. In 2017 Cramer was the historical consultant for the Ken Burns-produced documentary, Walden, created for the Walden Pond State Reservation during the Thoreau Bicentennial. Jeff is the Curator of Collections at the Walden Woods Project’s Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods Library. He lives in Maynard, Massachusetts.
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