Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial

Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a MemorialMy little effort to make Thoreau better known...
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Author: Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay),1839-1905
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Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial

Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial

$9.99

Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial

$9.99
Author: Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay),1839-1905
Format: eBook
Language: English

Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial

My little effort to make Thoreau better known in England had one result that I am pleased to think of. It brought me into personal association with R. L. Stevenson, who had written and published in The Cornhill Magazine an essay on Thoreau, in whom he had for some time taken an interest. He found in Thoreau not only a rare character for originality, courage, and indefatigable independence, but also a master of style, to whom, on this account, as much as any, he was inclined to play the part of the sedulous ape, as he had acknowledged doing to many othersa later exercise, perhaps in some ways as fruitful as any that had gone before. A recent poet, having had some seeds of plants sent to him from Northern Scotland to the South, celebrated his setting of them beside those native to the Surrey slope on which he dwelt, with the lines So the Thoreau influence on Stevenson was as if a tart American wild-apple had been grafted on an English pippin, and produced a wholly new kind with the flavours of both; and here wild America and England kissed each other mouth to mouth. The direct result was the essay in The Cornhill, but the indirect results were many and less easily assessed, as Stevenson himself, as we shall see, was ever ready to admit. The essay on Thoreau was written in America, which further, perhaps, bears out my point. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 590
Author: Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
Release Date: Jul 1, 1996
Format: eBook
Language: English

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