Thoreau's Late Career and The Dispersion of Seeds

Download or read book Thoreau's Late Career and The Dispersion of Seeds written by Michael Benjamin Berger and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It demonstrates that in his late career Thoreau was working as scientist and poet simultaneously. This study further explorers how Thoreau managed the philosophical and rhetorical tensions involved in bridging the supposed gap between science and poetry, and how, in his later career, he embraced the empirical method of scientific discovery while challenging the reductive assumptions of scientific materialism."--BOOK JACKET.