The Invention of Nature

‘look at Nature’: Thoreau, 4 December 1856, Thoreau Journal 1906, vol.9, p.157; see also Walls 1995, p.130; Walls 2009, p.264.

94

methods based on AH’s

Views

: Thoreau to Spencer Fullerton Baird, 19 December 1853, Thoreau Correspondence 1958, p.310.

95

earth as ‘living poetry’: Thoreau, 5 February 1854, Thoreau Journal 1981–2002, vol.7, p.268.

96

‘snore in the river’: Thoreau, 14 May 1852, ibid., vol.5, p.56.

97

‘the record of my love’: Thoreau, 16 November 1850 and 13 July 1852, ibid., vol.3, p.143 and vol.5, p.219..

98

cut flowers as metaphor for book: Thoreau, 27 January 1852, ibid., vol.4, p.296.

99

‘bring him a berry’: Emerson to William Emerson, 28 September 1853, Emerson 1939, vol.4, p.389.

100 ‘I am dissipated by’: Thoreau, 23 March 1853, Thoreau Journal 1981–2002, vol.6, p.30.

101 ‘detailed & scientific’: Thoreau, 19 August 1851, ibid., vol.3, p.377.

102 ‘With all your science’: Thoreau, 16 July 1851, ibid., p.306ff.

103 no poems: Thoreau wrote almost no poems after 1850, Howarth 1974, p.23.

104 ‘Nature will be my’: Thoreau, 10 May 1853, Thoreau Journal 1981–2002, vol.6, p.105.

105 ‘the pure blood’: Thoreau, 23 July 1851, ibid., vol.3, pp.330–31..

106 ‘thus reduced to a’: Thoreau, 20 October 1852, ibid., vol.5, p.378.

107 ‘Order. Kosmos’: Thoreau wrote ‘Kosmos’ in Greek, ‘κόσμος’, Thoreau, 6 January 1856, Thoreau Journal 1906, vol.8, p.88.

108 ‘a little world all to’: Thoreau Walden 1910, p.172.

109 ‘Why should I feel lonely’: Ibid., p.175.

110 ‘Am I not partly leaves’: Ibid., p.182.

111 thawing of sand: Thoreau, spring 1848, 31 December 1851, 5 February and 2 March 1854, Thoreau Journal 1981–2002, vol.2, p.382ff., vol.4, p.230, vol.7, p.268, vol.8, p.25ff.

112 thawing in first version: Thoreau’s first version of Walden, Shanley 1957, p.204; in published Walden, see Thoreau Walden 1910, pp.402–9.

113 ‘the anticipation of the’: Thoreau Walden 1910, pp.404–5.

114 ‘prototype’: Thoreau Walden 1910, pp.404–5; for Thoreau and Goethe’s urform, see Richardson 1986, pp.8.

115 ‘unaccountably interesting and’: Thoreau’s first version of Walden

, Shanley 1957, p.204.

116 ‘the principle of all’: Thoreau Walden 1910, p.407.

117 ‘lives & grows’: Thoreau, 31 December 1851, Thoreau Journal 1981–2002, vol.4. p.230.

118 ‘living poetry’: Thoreau, 5 February 1854, ibid., vol.7. p.266; see also Thoreau Walden 1910, p.408.

119 ‘Earth is all alive’: Thoreau Walden 1910, p.399.

120 ‘in full blast’: Ibid., p.408.

121 ‘like the creation of’: Ibid., p.414.

122 Walden as mini-Cosmos: Walls 2011–12, p.2ff.

123 ‘Facts fall from the’: Thoreau, 19 June 1852, Thoreau Journal 1981–2002, vol. 5, p.112; for objective and subjective observation, Thoreau, 6 May 1854, Thoreau Journal 1981–2002, vol.8, p.98; Walls 2009, p.266.

124 ‘I milk the sky’: Thoreau, 3 November 1853, Thoreau Journal 1981–2002, vol.7, p.140.

Chapter 20: The Greatest Man Since the Deluge

1

articles read in coffee houses: Varnhagen Diary, 3 March 1848, Varnhagen 1862, vol.4, p.259.

2

‘only had to get rid’: Varnhagen, 5 April 1841, Beck 1959, p.177.

3

‘does just what he’: Varnhagen, 18 March 1843, AH Varnhagen Letters 1860, p.97.

4

‘earthly matters’: Varnhagen, 1 April 1844, ibid., p.106; see also AH to Gauß, 14 June 1844, AH Gauß Letters 1977, p.87; AH to Bunsen, 16 December 1846, AH Bunsen Letters 2006, p.90.

5

not ruled by popular will: King Friedrich Wilhelm IV, speech to Vereinigte Landtag, 11 April 1847, Mommsen 2000, p.82ff.; for AH reporting the king’s speech, AH to Bunsen, 26 April 1847, AH Bunsen Letters 2006, p.96.

6

revolution in Berlin: Varnhagen Diary, 18 March 1848, ibid., p.276ff.

7

‘Oh Lord, oh Lord’: Varnhagen Diary, 19 March 1848, ibid., p.313.

8

slow reforms: AH to Friedrich Althaus, 4 September 1848, AH Althaus Memoirs 1861, p.13; AH to Bunsen, 22 September 1848, AH Bunsen Letters 2006, p.113.

9

revolution Berlin: Varnhagen Diary, 19 March 1848, Varnhagen 1862, vol.4, pp.315–31.

10

king wearing black, red, gold: Varnhagen Diary, 21 March 1848, ibid., p.334.

11

AH balcony with king: Varnhagen Diary, 21 March 1848, ibid., p.336; for AH at funeral procession, see Bruhns 1873, vol.2, p.341 and AH Friedrich Wilhelm IV Letters 2013, p.23.

12

‘differences in political’: AH to Johann Georg von Cotta, 20 September 1847, AH Cotta Letters 2009, p.318.

13

‘ultraliberal’: Friedrich Schleiermacher, 5 September 1832, Beck 1959, p.129; Bruhns 1873, vol.2, p.102; Wilhelm of Prussia to his sister Charlotte, 10 February 1831, Leitner 2008, p.227.

14

‘He is well aware’: Charles Lyell to Charles Lyell sen., 8 July 1823, Lyell 1881, vol.1, p.128.

15

‘hard pork chops’: AH to Hedemann, 17 August 1857, Biermann and Schwarz 2001b, no page numbers.

16

‘a spineless pale one’: AH to Varnhagen, 24 June 1842, Assing 1860, p.66.

17

‘courage to have his’: Max Ring, 1841 or 1853, Beck 1959, p.183.

18

‘always the same, always’: Krätz 1999b, p.33; see also AH to Friedrich Althaus, 23 December 1849, AH Althaus Memoirs 1861, p.29.

19