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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Smith, Harmon. My friend, my friend. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1999 (OCoLC)607201925 Online version: Smith, Harmon. My friend, my friend. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1999 (OCoLC)632153051 |
| Named Person: | Henry David Thoreau; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Henry David Thoreau; Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Harmon Smith |
| ISBN: | 1558491864 9781558491861 1558492933 9781558492936 |
| OCLC Number: | 40460074 |
| Description: | xii, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | ch. 1. Extraordinary young man -- ch. 2. Troubled dream -- ch. 3. Beautiful and the brave -- ch. 4. Womb of Zeus -- ch. 5. One of the family -- ch. 6. Into the world -- ch. 7. Beautiful asylum -- ch. 8. At home with Lidian -- ch. 9. Separate paths -- ch. 10. Undercurrents -- ch. 11. Between narrow walls -- ch. 12. Final years. |
| Responsibility: | Harmon Smith. |
Abstract:
The thoughts and feelings of Thoreau and Emerson are well documented in letters and journals. Harmon Smith is able to "trace the pattern of their emotional involvement in great detail. What emerges is both a remarkable portrait of their relationship and an intimate look at the nature of friendship itself".
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