Alexander Wilson, Poet-Naturalist: A Study of His Life With Selected Poems (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Wilson, James Southall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0267600739 ISBN 13: 9780267600731

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Alexander Wilson, Poet-Naturalist: A Study of His Life With Selected Poems

To those who shall take the trouble to read this biography, I feel that there is no need to make an ex cuse for its publication. The life of this self-educated Scotch weaver, who became the distinguished Ameri can scientist, justifies the telling by its interest, but the significance of the man's work gives to the record of the life its real importance. He was the first, as he is still among the greatest, of those who have thought the study of our American birds of enough importance to make it a life work, and as a man of letters he has a significance also. He stands with Freneau at the very fountain-head of that branch of American literature which still forms so important a part in our letters, the poetry of nature. Between Wilson and Philip Freneau, however, there is this difference the son of Princeton represents the poets who give us impressions of nature While Wilson belongs to the number of those who simply paint nature as it is; the one is chiefly subjective, the other, objective.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0267600739
• ISBN 13: 9780267600731
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 184