Word: thorean
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...factory, when maritime contact with the Orient and the Mediterranean was widening the native horizon, when--to quote the author--"the inherited mediaeval civilization of New England dried up, leaving behind a sweet, acrid aroma ... when in the act of passing away, the Puritan begot the transcendentalist." Emerson, Thorean, and Whitman rediscovered the treasure house of the past and envisioned a new culture, based on the old ideas moulded afresh, by contact with forest...
...strictly literary work dealt with nature, of which he was a great lover and student. "The Land of the Lingering Snow," and "At the North of Bearcamp Water," show an appreciation of nature, such as perhaps no man has expressed since the time of Thorean...