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" In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is only another name for lameness. It is the untamed, uncivilized, free and wild thinking in Hamlet, in the Iliad, and in all the scriptures and mythologies that delights us, — not learned... "
Peter De Vries and Surrealism - Pagina 19
door Dan Campion - 1995 - 240 pagina’s
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Penn Monthly Magazine, Volume 11

Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1880 - 1000 pagina’s
...them, — transplanted them to his page with earth adhering to their roots." And, again, he says : " In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is but another name for tameness. * * All good things are wild and free." Thoreau's praise of the wild, as contrasted with the tame and...
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Thoreau's Thoughts: Selections from the Writings of Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau - 1890 - 174 pagina’s
...or the wilderness. ing <^f|ghtii ExctnaoKs, p. 189. wad think- It is the uncivilized, free, and u$. wild thinking in " Hamlet " and the " Iliad," in all...and Mythologies, not learned in the schools, that the best . 1 j *. Ji SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU. 91 A truly good book is something books. as natural and...
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Starting points for speakers, preachers, writers, and other thinkers ...

John Horne - 1904 - 172 pagina’s
...Literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dulness is another name for tameness. It is the uncivilised free and wild thinking in Hamlet and the Iliad, in all the Scriptures and Mythologies, that delights us. ... The poet of to-day, notwithstanding all the discoveries of Science and the accumulated...
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The Heart of Thoreau's Journals

Henry David Thoreau - 1927 - 376 pagina’s
...stake had been driven, and, looking nearer, I saw that the Prince of Darkness was his surveyor. Nov. 16 In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is only another name for tameness. It is the untamed, uncivilized, free, and wild thinking in Hamlet,...
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The Heart of Thoreau's Journals

Henry David Thoreau - 1927 - 380 pagina’s
...where a stake had been driven, and, looking nearer, I saw that the Prince of Darkness was his surveyor. In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is only another name for tameness. It is the untamed, uncivilized, free, and wild thinking in Hamlet,...
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The Great New Wilderness Debate

J. Baird Callicott, Michael P. Nelson - 1998 - 716 pagina’s
...stems of primitive forest-trees. . . . In Literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dulness is but another name for tameness. It is the uncivilized free and wild thinking in "Hamlet" and "Iliad," in all the Scriptures and Mythologies, not learned in the schools, that delights us. As the...
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The Green Studies Reader: From Romanticism to Ecocriticism

Laurence Coupe - 2000 - 346 pagina’s
...and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World. . . . In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is but another name for lameness. It is the uncivilized free and wild thinking in Hamlet and the Iliad, in all the scriptures...
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The Green Studies Reader: From Romanticism to Ecocriticism

Laurence Coupe - 2000 - 346 pagina’s
...and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World. . . . In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is but another name for lameness. It is the uncivilized free and wild thinking in Hamlet and the Iliad, in all the scriptures...
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Sick of Nature

David Gessner - 2005 - 254 pagina’s
...wildness," wrote Thoreau in the essay "Walking," "The most wild is the most alive." Henry didn't stop there: "In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is but another word for tameness." During my hiatus from nature writing, I began to believe that that was precisely...
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Literature, Literary History, and Cultural Memory

Herbert Grabes - 2005 - 408 pagina’s
...briefly through the work of Henry David Thoreau. On 16 November 1850, Thoreau notes in his Journal: In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is only another name for tameness. It is the untamed, uncivilized, free, and wild thinking in Hamlet,...
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