Poemas (Letras Universales)

by Henry David Thoreau

Esta edición, hermosamente ilustrada por Juanma Pérez, recoge por vez primera en castellano todos los poemas de Thoreau, gran conocedor de la tradición poética clásica e inglesa. Los poemas son el registro de sus pensamientos más nobles y una prueba de aquella escritura deliberada y reservada que configura todo un método de estudio y composición en "Walden". Aunque Thoreau escribió pocos versos, la figura del poeta, como precursor del filósofo, estuvo siempre presente en su pensamiento. Naturalizar al lector, antes que espiritualizarlo, sería el propósito de quien pretendía llevar la cualidad salvaje a los lugares que visitaba para comunicarles su estado de "promesa floreciente". Esa promesa, como el sabor del "fruto boreal", está concentrada en cada uno de sus versos.

Genres: Poetry, Classics

336 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1964

About the author

Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, philosopher, and abolitionist who is best known for Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.

Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.

In 1817, Henry David Thoreau was born in Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1837, taught briefly, then turned to writing and lecturing. Becoming a Transcendentalist and good friend of Emerson, Thoreau lived the life of simplicity he advocated in his writings. His two-year experience in a hut in Walden, on land owned by Emerson, resulted in the classic, Walden: Life in the Woods (1854). During his sojourn there, Thoreau refused to pay a poll tax in protest of slavery and the Mexican war, for which he was jailed overnight. His activist convictions were expressed in the groundbreaking On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849). In a diary he noted his disapproval of attempts to convert the Algonquins "from their own superstitions to new ones." In a journal he noted dryly that it is appropriate for a church to be the ugliest building in a village, "because it is the one in which human nature stoops to the lowest and is the most disgraced." (Cited by James A. Haught in 2000 Years of Disbelief.) When Parker Pillsbury sought to talk about religion with Thoreau as he was dying from tuberculosis, Thoreau replied: "One world at a time."

Thoreau's philosophy of nonviolent resistance influenced the political thoughts and actions of such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas K. Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. D. 1862.

More: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tho...

http://thoreau.eserver.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Da...

http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu....

http://www.biography.com/people/henry...

Reviews

[Illiterate · Rating 2 out of 5]

Thoreau is at his best when depicting nature. When he seeks abstract significance, it is often forced and familiar.

[Mersini · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thoreau is not nearly as well known for his poetry as he is for Walden, but it's some good stuff. I didn't find much of it particularly striking, but it had merit.

I skipped the appendices in this edition, which are good if you're studying Thoreau, but not very interesting if you're not.

[Jacob · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absurdly underrated.

[Eteocles · Rating 4 out of 5]

Poesía muy en línea con su prosa... invitando al recogimiento, a la contemplación, a saber maravillarse con la belleza de lo que nos rodea. En general, es un poeta decente (tampoco sé cuánto mal le ha hecho la traducción, puesto que hay poemas que parecen ripios puros y duros) con grandes hallazgos en algunos versos, pero me quedo con Walden.

[David Glotfelty · Rating 5 out of 5]

I lucked into finding this book in a used book store. One of the few poems I've tried to memorize came from this book.

[Matt · Rating 2 out of 5]

Better than most "collection of poems" books, but not anything exciting. I am still curious as to why he is a classic. Maybe if I actually studied him I would like it better.

[AL أل · Rating 3 out of 5]

Molt transcendentalista, com la seva prosa, plena de sentiment, d'evocació a la natura, a un mateix i a la desobediència.

[Pepe Llopis Manchón · Rating 4 out of 5]

No creo que haya un gran poeta en Thoreau.
Sin embargo, sí algunos magníficos versos.