The Year Is a Circle: A Celebration of Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau is remembered as a foremost nature writer. He was an ecologist before the term was invented. A man of many parts, including social critic, he is known to have had an influence on such internationally recognized leaders as Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
"Victor Carl Friesen, author of The Spirit of the Huckleberry, an astute analysis of Henry David Thoreau’s prose, again demonstrates his affinity for the Walden sage with this unique volume of poems and photographs. Taking a series of quotations demonstrating Thoreau’s sensuousness, he writes a poem for each and then illustrates them with outstanding colour photographs. The poems, mostly written in the blank verse form, have sturdy strength and remarkable insight into both Thoreau and nature."
- Walter Harding, Founding Secretary, The Thoreau Society Inc., State University of New York, Genesco
"Friesen is particularly qualified as a Thoreau scholar, for his personal interests extend well beyond literature to include natural history, a subject very much at the centre of Thoreau’s writings."
- Canadian Book Review Annual
Victor Carl Friesen
Victor Carl Friesen lives and writes in Rosthern, Saskatchewan, but photographs nature anywhere. The first recipient of the Alberta Book Award, he is the author of five books including The Year Is a Circle.
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The Year Is a Circle - Victor Carl Friesen
The Year
is a Circle
The Year
is a Circle
A Celebration of
Henry David Thoreau
Victor Carl Friesen
NATURAL HERITAGE / NATURAL HISTORY INC.
The Year is a Circle: A Celebration of Henry David Thoreau
by Victor Carl Friesen
Published by Natural Heritage / Natural History Inc.
P.O. Box 95, Station O
, Toronto, Ontario M4A 2M8
Copyright © 1995 Victor Carl Friesen
No portion of this book, with the exception of brief extracts
for the purpose of literary or scholarly review, may be reproduced in
any form without the permission of the publisher.
Design: Molly Brass
Printed and bound in Canada by Hignell Printing Limited,
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Friesen, Victor Carl
The year is a circle: a celebration of Henry David Thoreau
Includes text by Henry David Thoreau.
ISBN 1-896219-03-9
1. Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 - Knowledge - Natural history.
2. Nature in literature. 3. Nature - Pictorial works. I . Thoreau, Henry
David, 1817-1862. II Title.
PS3057.N3F75 1995 818’ .309
Natural Heritage / Natural History Inc. gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Citizenship, Tourism and Recreation.
Second printing November 1996
For Dorothy
Contents
Photographs
Preface
Thoreau
Introduction
At Walden Pond
Seasons
Summer
Summer Days
June ~ On Cape Cod
July ~ Shore Morning
August ~ On Fair Haven Hill
Autumn
Autumn Afternoon
September ~ In the Maine Woods
October ~ A Stroll upon the Beach
November ~ Moon Rising
Winter
Winter’s Onset
December ~ Merry Blizzard
January ~ Winter Blue
February ~ A Winter Walk
Spring
Spring’s Coming
March ~ Early Spring
April ~ To Great Meadows
May ~ In Concord Woods
Conclusion
The Richer Life
Photographs
frontispiece
opposite Contents
"the chill, / Gray ghost of dawn"
"shaking the sun’s / Light"
"fashioned from / The dawn into the day"
"the pond / In evening lies"
Summer frontispiece
"the days grow languid"
"softly packed with raft-like clouds"
"atop the reedy grass"
"sunny daytime’s realm"
"twilight’s ethereality"
"to landlessness"
"genesis of my well-being"
"its grating undulation"
"steel-blue, still and clear"
"a scented stillness"
"soft shadows hold sway"
"a cloud floats along"
" exhalation of the shaded earth"
" a line advancing – milky summits"
"watching storm clouds come"
Autumn frontispiece
"red juices in each leaf"
"weighted limbs of foliage"
"amalgam of / Sensations"
"the shower-ruined vesture of a cloud"
"golden prolongation; / A breath