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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
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Simpson, Jeffrey Edward. "The Walking Muse in America," Brown University, 1991. Advisor: Barton St. Armand (12, 16)
This study examines what walking meant as activity and metaphor to five American literary walkers, three from the American Renaissance—Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Whitman—and two from the modern period—Frost and Ammons. Thoreau inaugurates a distinctively American concern with the experiential immediacy, intimacy, and physicality of foot travel, a concern that distinguishes him and the other walkers considered here from essentially contemplative, idealizing precursors such as Wordsworth and Emerson. My five writers treat walking as a meaningfully distinct form of the Romantic Journey, insisting on the irreplaceable authenticity of grounded experience.
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