Word: thoreau
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...Transcendentalists never die. Ignoring the Bomb, the Beats, the Beatles, and other forces of change and disintegration, a small group of American poets continues to write mild, mellow verse in the Concord manner of Emerson and Thoreau. Their themes are hill and dale, solitude and sadness; their tone is elegiac; and the best of them is Winfield Townley Scott...
...What I love is near at hand, / Always, in earth and air," Theodore Roethke wrote in the title poem of this last collection. What he loved was growing things (no important U.S. poet since Thoreau has been less citified) and their textures. What he celebrated was his love for his young wife (now 38, she had been his student at Bennington College, where he taught English). And what he feared was death...
...hardware merchant who has exactly what she wants - nothing. "Our life together was just like an old silent movie," says Shirley. Which cues in some grainy black-and-white footage -a slapstick idyl with speeded-up action. The idyl jerks to a stop when Van Dyke throws away his Thoreau and proceeds to make a mint. "A little hard work never killed anybody," he insists. Soon he drops dead, leaving Shirley sadder but richer, and free for Husband...
...exude slow-spoken, sobersided sincerity during his public appearances in Washington. But let him get a whiff of a spring-fresh Texas range dotted with cattle and Angora goats, and suddenly he comes on like a cross between a teen-age Grand Prix driver and a back-to-nature Thoreau in cow boy boots...
...working on a study of Emily Dickinson. Kiely, who was an instructor in English composition last year, is now a lecturer in both General Education and English. Porte is an instructor in English. Especially interested in 19th century American literature, he is currently making a study of Emerson and Thoreau...