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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 July 2025
The American artist N. C. Wyeth’s 1942 painting (see frontispiece), Walden Pond Revisited, presents Henry David Thoreau in what this book calls his landscape of genius. Thoreau faces us directly in the center of the composition with his gaze slightly averted, creating an intense, one-to-one relationship with the viewer, analogous to the relationship between author and solitary reader. Thoreau’s central presence defines the landscape behind him, including the various emblems of his authorship – his boat, his beanfield, and above all his pondside house. Bands of light radiate through the landscape, signifying its spiritual energies and associating Thoreau with his house and pond, the surrounding nature, and the heavens. The entire Walden landscape is defined by the painting in these ways as a shrine around Thoreau’s authorial genius.
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