A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks.

Author / Editor
Schlett, James.

Title
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