康橋風雪最相思：楊聯陞、蔣彝的波士頓； the Harvard Yard--從Santayana到一系列的留學生、老師；《哈佛遺墨》。 讀 Paul Theroux's Boston Reading List 的聯想 ；美國文學史導引：改變世界/美國的書( Robert B. Downs )。新英格蘭時代傑出人士。版本翻譯比較 “Moby-Dick,” Herman Melville ；梭羅 Non-Conformist《Walden, or, "Life in the Woods" (1854), 湖濱散記》。Walden Two (1948)

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直播預告：康橋風雪最相思：楊聯陞、蔣彝的波士頓； the Harvard Yard--從Santayana到一系列的留學生、老師；《哈佛遺墨》。

讀 Paul Theroux's Boston Reading List 的聯想 ；美國文學史導引：改變世界/美國的書( Robert B. Downs )。新英格蘭時代傑出人士。版本翻譯比較 “Moby-Dick,” Herman Melville ；梭羅 Non-Conformist《Walden, or, "Life in the Woods" (1854), 湖濱散記》。Walden Two (1948) 倡導儉約生活，身體力行

The center of the Yard, known as Tercentenary Theatre, is a wide grassy area bounded by Widener Library, Memorial Church, University Hall, and Sever Hall. Tercentenary Theatre is the site of annual commencement exercises and other convocations.

Harvard Yard and environs, from the southeast. The Yard's most prominent buildings bound Tercentenary Theatre: Widener Library (center left), Memorial Church (opposite Widener), University Hall (just beyond Widener, white with white chimneys), and Sever Hall (red roof, opposite University Hall). The Old Yard is the treed area beyond University Hall.

康橋風雪最相思：楊聯陞、蔣彝的波士頓；  the Harvard Yard--從Santayana到一系列的留學生、老師；《哈佛遺墨》。讀  Paul Theroux's Boston Reading List   的聯想  ；美國文學史導引：新英格蘭時代傑出人事；\  “Moby-Dick,” Herman Melville 改變世界/美國的書( Robert B. Downs )；版本翻譯比較 梭羅 Non-Conformist《Walden, or, "Life in the Woods" (1854), 湖濱散記，》Walden Two (1948)倡導儉約生活，身體力行

A celebrated Santayana makes the cover of Time in 1936. biography, the three-volume Persons and Places (1944-53),

 Of these places the most familiar to me, after Avila, was the Harvard Yard.

The influence of place upon Santayana is nevertheless distinguish- able, ... At first he lived in old Stoughton Hall in the Harvard Yard, and ate his meals ...

哈佛园- 维基百科，自由的百科全书
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哈佛园（英語：Harvard Yard），是一个位于美国马萨诸塞州剑桥的草坪，是哈佛大学校园最古老的部分之一。 哈佛园历史街区. 美國國家史蹟名錄.
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Harvard Yard, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the oldest part of the Harvard University campus, its historic center and modern crossroads.
Architectural style： Georgian, Federal
Location： Cambridge, Massachusetts
Boundary increase： December 14, 1987
Harvard Yard
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Harvard Yard, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a grassy area enclosed by fences with twenty-seven gates. It is the oldest part of the Harvard University ...

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2023年1月18日 — Read Your Way Through Boston. Paul Theroux, the quintessential travel writer, has also enshrined his Massachusetts roots in his writing.

Paul Theroux’s Boston Reading List

What interested him — what interests me — was not a particular book but a literary intelligence, a Yankee sensibility enshrined in many local books. Boston does not, like Dublin, have a “Ulysses” — few cities do. The nearest novel to being essentially Bostonian might be Edwin O’Connor’s “The Last Hurrah”; its protagonist, Frank Skeffington, based on Boston’s flamboyant James Michael Curley, embodies Boston’s old political culture of blarney and bribery.

• “The Last Hurrah,” Edwin O’Connor

• “Two Years Before the Mast,” Richard Henry Dana Jr.

• “Snow-Bound,” John Greenleaf Whittier

• “Thanksgiving Day,” Lydia Maria Child

• “Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life,” Lydia Moland

• “Paul Revere’s Ride,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• “Johnny Tremain,” Esther Forbes

• “The Cardinal,” Henry Morton Robinson

• “By Any Means Necessary,” Malcolm X

• “The Friends of Eddie Coyle,” George V. Higgins

• “Sacred” and “Mystic River,” Dennis Lehane

• “Walden” and “Cape Cod,” Henry David Thoreau

• “Concord Hymn,” Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “Moby-Dick,” Herman Melville

• “Mayflower,” Nathaniel Philbrick

• “Memory of Cape Cod,” Edna St. Vincent Millay

• “Tough Guys Don’t Dance,” Norman Mailer

• Set in Provincetown on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, the protagonist is Tim Madden, a former bartender and drug runner, currently struggling to make a living as a writer. After waking one morning with a hangover 24 days after his wife has left him, Madden discovers that he has a new tattoo, the passenger seat of his car is covered in blood, and he has no memory of the previous night

• “Vanity of Duluoz,” Jack Kerouac

《改變美國的書》  彭歌譯~ [純文學39 1976

 Downs produced many publications during his life and is best known for his book titled Books That Changed the World. 1978

• Books That Changed America, Macmillan, 1970.

 

• Books That Changed the South, University of North Carolina Press, 1977.

B. F. Skinner. Walden Two (1948)

Henry David Thoreau, "Walden;" or, "Life in the Woods" (1854)
While living in solitude in a cabin on Walden Pond in Concord, Mass., Henry David Thoreau wrote his most famous work, "Walden," a paean to the idea that it is foolish to spend a lifetime seeking material wealth. In his words, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Thoreau’s love of nature and his advocacy of a simple life have had a large influence on modern conservation and environmentalist movements.

Willingness to undertake new ventures; initiative: "Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs" (Henry David Thoreau).


 Henry David Thoreau indicates when he calls his generation "a race of tit-men." 

 Our woods are sylvan, and their inhabitants woodmen and rustics... — Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist.

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 Our art critic Holland Cotter looks to Henry David Thoreau for some lessons on how to be constructive while alone



About Walden

In some editions of Walden, there is included an inscription page which precedes the first chapter. On this page, the narrator of Walden declares:

I DO NOT PROPOSE TO WRITE AN ODE TO DEJECTION, BUT TO BRAG AS LUSTILY AS CHANTICLEER IN THE MORNING, STANDING ON HIS ROOST, IF ONLY TO WAKE MY NEIGHBORS UP.

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重新慢慢建立Henry David Thoreau的書單. 此君的日記真功夫


"Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."
--from WALDEN by Henry David Thoreau


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Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.^[1] He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.

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Bird eggs found by Thoreau and given to the Boston Society of Natural History. Those in the nest are of yellow warbler, the other two of red-tailed hawk

• Aulus Persius Flaccus (1840)^[88]
• The Service (1840)^[89]
• A Walk to Wachusett (1842)^[90]
• Paradise (to be) Regained (1843)^[91]
• The Landlord (1843)^[92]
• Sir Walter Raleigh (1844)
• Herald of Freedom (1844)^[93]
• Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum (1845)^[94]
• Reform and the Reformers (1846–48)
• Thomas Carlyle and His Works (1847)^[95]
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)^[96]
• Resistance to Civil Government, or Civil Disobedience (1849)^[97]
• An Excursion to Canada (1853)^[98]
• Slavery in Massachusetts (1854)^[99]
• Walden (1854)^[100]
• A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)^[101]
• Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown (1859)^[102]
• The Last Days of John Brown (1860)^[103]
• The Fall of the Leaf ^[104]
• Walking (1861)^[105]
• Autumnal Tints (1862)^[106]
• Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree (1862)^[107]
• Excursions (1863)^[108]
• Life Without Principle (1863)^[109]
• Night and Moonlight (1863)^[110]
• The Highland Light (1864)
• The Maine Woods (1864)^[111][112]
• Cape Cod (1865)^[113]
• Letters to Various Persons (1865)^[114]
• A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers (1866)^[115]
• Early Spring in Massachusetts (1881)
• Summer (1884)^[116]
• Winter (1888)^[117]
• Autumn (1892)^[118]
• Miscellanies (1894)^[119]
• Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau (1894)^[120]
• Poems of Nature (1895)
• Some Unpublished Letters of Henry D. and Sophia E. Thoreau (1898)
• The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau (1905)^[121][122]
• Journal of Henry David Thoreau (1906)^[123]
• The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau edited by Walter Harding and Carl Bode (Washington Square: New York University Press, 1958)^[124]
• Poets of the English Language (Viking Press, 1950)
• I Was Made Erect and Lone ^[125]

The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau

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• Joel Myerson

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• http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521440378

• Online Publication Date:
• May 2006

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• 1995Frontmatter

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• pp. i-xx

• 1 - Thoreau’s reputation by Walter Harding
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• pp. 1-11

• 2 - Thoreau and Concord by Robert D. Jr. Richardson
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• pp. 12-24

• 3 - Thoreau and Emerson by Robert Sattelmeyer
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• pp. 25-39

• 4 - A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Llnck C. Johnson
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• pp. 40-56

• 5 - Thoreau as poet by Elizabeth Hall Witherell
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• pp. 57-70

• 6 - Thoreau and his audience by Steven Fink
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• pp. 71-91

• 7 - Walden by Richard J. Schnelder
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• pp. 92-106

• 8 - Thoreau in his Journal by Leonard N. Neufeldt
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• pp. 107-123

• 9 - The Maine Woods by Joseph J. Moldenhauer
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• pp. 124-141

• 10 - A wild, rank place by Phlllp F. Gura
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• pp. 142-151

• 11 - Thoreau’s later natural history writings by Ronald Wesley Hoxg
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• pp. 152-170

• 12 - Thoreau and the natural environment by Lawrence Buell
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• pp. 171-193

• 13 - Thoreau and reform by Len Gougeon
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• pp. 194-214

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• pp. 215-218

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'Woodsburner'

By JOHN PIPKIN
Reviewed by BRENDA WINEAPPLE

This novel of a young Thoreau setting fire to 300 acres of Concord forest is in effect a wily prequel to “Walden.”

Robert B. Downs, 87, Librarian and Author

Published: Tuesday, February 26, 1991

Robert Bingham Downs, an author and librarian who spent his career opposing limits on the circulation of books, died Sunday at his home in Urbana, Ill. He was 87 years old.

He died of pneumonia, said his wife, Jane Bliss Downs.

Mr. Downs was dean emeritus of library administration at the University of Illinois. In his 28 years there he helped the library grow to become the third-largest university library in the United States.

A 1929 graduate of Columbia University School of Library Service, Mr. Downs was an outspoken opponent of censorship. In 1953 he was president of the American Library Association.

He was the author or co-author of more than 40 books, including "Books That Changed the World," which was published in 1956 by New American Library and translated into 17 languages. The book sold several million copies. He was a consultant to libraries around the world.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by two daughters from a previous marriage to Elizabeth Crooks Downs, Clara Keller of Salinas, Calif., and Roberta Andre of Avon, Conn.; three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

國際書市》改變美國的十三本書

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【聯合報╱王岫／報導】 1950、60年代，美國著名圖書館學家唐斯博士（Robert B. Downs）寫了幾本「介紹書的書」（Book about Books），最有名的是《改變歷史的書》和《改變美國的書》。在《改變美國的書》中，唐斯推薦了對形成美國文化有重大影響的二十五本書，從1776年潘 恩的《常識》到1962年卡遜女士《寂靜的春天》，入選書大半是社會科學，其中三本小說和三本醫學相關的書，內容也傳達了社會問題和社會改革。 近五十年後，美國作家帕里尼（Jay Parini）近日也推出《在應許之地：改變美國的十三本書》（In Promised Land：Thirteen Books That Changed America）呼應。《在應許之地》入選書單將年代前推到美國殖民地時期，「五月花號」領袖和普利茅斯殖民地總督威廉‧布萊福特（William Bradford）寫於1620至1647年間的《普利茅斯墾殖記》（Of Plymouth Plantation）；其中只有兩本書和唐斯書單相同：1814年出版，描述美國首次橫越新大陸西抵太平洋沿岸考察活動的《劉易斯與克拉克遠征日誌》（The Journals of the Lewis and Clark）和史陀夫人1852年經典名著《黑奴籲天錄》。 比起唐斯的嚴肅社會視野，帕里尼選書更重視對美國世道人心、家庭倫理有無形影響力。他選中1963年卡內基的勵志書《人性的弱點》以及1946年史波克（Benjamin Spock）醫師的《嬰幼兒照護常識》（The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care）。兩書皆是當時暢銷書，儘管不足以經世濟民，但帕里尼認為《人》書講人際關係、溝通策略，追求自我完善；《嬰》書教家長輕鬆用常識養育子女，成為家家戶戶必備的育兒聖經，影響美國人的思想和生活。 另外推薦的有：1780年代美國政治家制憲過程中有關憲法和聯邦制度的評論文集《聯邦黨人文集》（The Federalist Papers）；道德觀深入美國人日常生活的《富蘭克林自傳》；首位取得哈佛博士的黑人、也是二十世紀上半葉最有影響力的黑人領袖杜博斯（W. E. B. Du Bois）的《黑人的靈魂》（The Souls of Black Folk），提出激烈批判白人優越的論點。 女作家安廷（Mary Antin）《應許之地》（The Promised Land）描述歐洲猶太人的經歷，以及到美國後生活的對照，讓美國人對自己國家和生活更具信心；女權運動祖師奶奶貝蒂‧傅瑞丹（Betty Friedan）1963年的《女性迷思》（The Feminine Mystique），對美國婦權發展有關鍵影響。 三本文學作品是：梭羅《湖濱散記》倡導儉約生活，身體力行；馬克吐溫《頑童流浪記》描繪美式人際關係和生活方式，深入人心；「垮掉的一代」旗手凱魯亞克公路小說《旅途上》，對1960年代後年輕人的生活態度潛移默化。