
Walk
Notes on a Romantic Image
Jeffrey C. Robinson(Author)
Dalkey Archive Press
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 14. December 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-56478-459-9 (ISBN)
Description
"The Walk," a meditation on walking and on the literature of walking, ruminates on this pervasive, even commonplace, modern image. It is not so much an argument as a journey along the path of literature, noting the occasions and settings, the pleasures and possibilities of different types of walking--through the country or city, during day or night, alone or with someone--and the literatures--the poems, essays, stories, novels, and diaries--walking has produced.Jeffrey C. Robinson's discussion is less criticism than appreciation: with an autobiographical bent, he leads the reader through Romantic, modern, and contemporary literature to show us the shared pleasures of reading, writing, and walking.
Reviews / Votes
"Jeffrey C. Robinson's The Walk is a lively and intelligent omnibus for thinkers as well as for walkers. His evident love of literature is a genuine enthusiasm for all that is best in life." - Annie Dillard, editor of Modern American Memoirs 1996 "An elegant and eloquent persuasion to abandon the automobile." - Marilyn Krysl, founding editor of literary journal Many Mountains Moving"More details
Series
Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 143 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
213 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56478-459-9 (9781564784599)
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Persons
Robinson has published widely in Romantic Studies. He is co-editor, along with Jerome Rothenberg, of Poems for the Millennium, Volume Three: The University of California Book of Romantic and Post-Romantic Poetry. A winner of Guggenheim and NEH fellowships, he has taught at the University of Colorado in Boulder since 1971. Gilbert is a professor of English at Cornell University. He has also been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship.