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- Comment on Economy 71-81 by Paul SchachtPosted in: ENGL 340 S26 Geneseo In reply to Elizabeth Clodfelter. Glad you wondered about this, @ekclodfelter! Thoreau's example here, "Cambridge College" (i.e., Harvard University), though established by an act of the pre-revolutionary Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636, is a private, not public, university. Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia in 1819, two years […]
- Comment on Where I Lived, And What I Lived For 13-23 by Tori WebsterPosted in: ENGL 340 S26 Geneseo [Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me. Where I lived was as far off as many a region viewed nightly by astronomers.] In this section of Version A, Thoreau […]
- Comment on Where I Lived, And What I Lived For 13-23 by Paul SchachtPosted in: ENGL 340 S26 Geneseo In reply to Alex Campitiello. @alexcampitiello You've put this very well! One gets the feeling that for Thoreau the process of writing—how the very act of writing changes what you understand and how you understand yourself—matters more than the product. Below is one version of this paragraph in the […]
- Comment on Where I Lived, And What I Lived For 1-12 by Paul SchachtPosted in: ENGL 340 S26 Geneseo In reply to Avery. @averyw See my reply to the comment on this passage from @jaidyn. In Thoreau's reference to mythology, and to the way his imagination shapes his perception of his unfinished house, we get additional glimpses of how Romanticism shaped his outlook. How do you understand his […]
- Comment on Where I Lived, And What I Lived For 1-12 by Paul SchachtPosted in: ENGL 340 S26 Geneseo In reply to Jaidyn. @jaidyn Your excellent point about subjectivity in human experience made me think of the quotation from Thoreau's Journal that I've included in the second blog post assignment for our class, due in April. "Leaving my boat, I walk through the low wood west of Dove […]