The Writings of John Burroughs, Volume 20
The Writings of John Burroughs, Volume 20

Author: John Burroughs

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-04-27

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9781354858752

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The Writings of John Burroughs. [, Volume 9
The Writings of John Burroughs. [, Volume 9

Author: John Burroughs

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-04-27

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9781354816370

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The Writings of John Burroughs [V 1-20
The Writings of John Burroughs [V 1-20

Author: John Burroughs

Publisher: General Books

Published: 2012-02

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9781458984227

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HIS RULING IDEAS AND AIMS LET me here summarize some of the ideas and principles in which Leaves of Grass has its root, and from which it starts. A collection of poems in the usual sense, a variety of themes artistically treated and appealing to our aesthetic perceptibilities alone, it is not. It has, strictly speaking, but one theme, ? personality, the personality of the poet himself. To exploit this is always the main purpose, and, in doing so, to make the book both directly and indirectly a large, impassioned utterance upon all the main problems of life and of nationality. It is primitive, like the early literature of a race or people, in that its spirit and purpose are essentially religious. It is like the primitive literatures also in its prophetic cry and in its bardic simplicity and homeliness, and unlike them in its faith and joy and its unconquerable optimism. It has been not inaptly called the bible of democracy. Its biblical features are obvious enough with the darker negative traits left out. It is Israel with science and the modern added. Whitman was swayed by a few great passions, ? the passion for country, the passion for comrades, the cosmic passion, etc. His first concern seems always to have been for his country. He has touched no theme, named no man, not related in some way to America. The thought of it possessed him as thoroughly as the thought of Israel possessed the old Hebrew prophets. Indeed, it is the same passion, and flames up with the same vitality and power, ? the same passion for race and nativity enlightened by science and suffused with the modern humanitarian spirit. Israel was exclusive and cruel. Democracy, as exemplified in Walt Whitman, is compassionate and all-inclusive: ? My spirit has passed in compassion and determination ...

The Writings of John Burroughs. [
The Writings of John Burroughs. [

Author: John Burroughs

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2019-03-03

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780526693436

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Field and Study
Field and Study

Author: John Burroughs

Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC

Published: 2014-03

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781494150945

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1919 Edition.