Author : John Burroughs
Release : 2013-11
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers by : John Burroughs

Download or read book Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers written by John Burroughs. This book was released on 2013-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical Sketch Introduction By Mary E. Burt Birds Bird Enemies The Tragedies of the Nests Bees An Idyl of the Honey-Bee The Pastoral Bees John Burroughs (1837-1921) was an American naturalist and essayist. He played an important role in the evolution of the U. S. conservation movement. According to biographers at the American Memory project at the Library of Congress, John Burroughs was the most important practitioner after Thoreau of that especially American literary genre, the nature essay. By the turn of the century he had become a virtual cultural institution in his own right: the Grand Old Man of Nature at a time when the American romance with the idea of nature, and the American conservation movement, had come fully into their own. His extraordinary popularity and popular visibility were sustained by a prolific stream of essay collections, beginning with Wake-Robin in 1871. In the words of his biographer Edward Renehan, Burroughs's special identity was less that of a scientific naturalist than that of "a literary naturalist with a duty to record his own unique perceptions of the natural world. " His most famous works include: Winter Sunshine (1875), Locusts and Wild Honey (1879), The Writings of John Burroughs (1895) and Far and Near (1904). "For the development of close observation and good feeling toward the common things of life, I know of no writings better than those of John Burroughs." -Mary E. Burt "Burroughs took to writing his sketches of nature, and about this time he fell in with the writings of Thoreau, which doubtless confirmed and encouraged him in this direction. But of all authors and of all men, Walt Whitman, in his personality and as a literary force, seems to have made the profoundest impression upon Mr. Burroughs, though doubtless Emerson had a greater influence on his style of writing." -Mary E. Burt