A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks.
- Author / Editor
- Schlett, James.
A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks.
- Published
- Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 256 pp.; illus.
- Description
- Recounts the history and events of the nineteenth-century American Philosophers' Camp. The chapter entitled "The Worthy Crew Chaucer Never Had" includes discussion of Ralph Waldo Emerson's notebook commentaries on similarities between the group of men attending the Camp and the pilgrims of the CT; the chapter title derives from a poem in Emerson’s "Poetry Notebooks."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion