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Book

Upstream : selected essays

Call Number

  • 814 O487 (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

New York : Penguin Press, 2016.

Physical Description

178 pages ; 22 cm

Uniform Title

Essays. Selections

Contents

  • Upstream
  • My friend, Walt Whitman
  • Staying alive
  • Of power and time
  • Blue pastures
  • The ponds
  • Sister Turtle
  • Emerson : an introduction
  • The bright eyes of Eleonora : Poe's dream of recapturing the impossible
  • Some thoughts on Whitman
  • Wordsworth's mountain
  • Swoon
  • Bird
  • Owls
  • Two short ones. Who cometh here? ; Ropes
  • Winter hours
  • Building the house
  • Provincetown.

Subjects

Genres

Essays.