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.
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"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
"An elegant and eloquent persuasion to abandon the automobile." --Marilyn Krysl --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
"An elegant and eloquent persuasion to abandon the automobile." --Marilyn Krysl --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Jeffrey C. Robinson's recent books include Wordsworth Day by Day: Reading His Work into Poetry Now, and Unfettering Poetry: The Fancy in British Romanticism. He is co-editor with Jerome Rothenberg of the forthcoming Poems for the Millennium, Vol. 3: The University of California Book of Romantic and Post-Romantic Poetry. He has taught at the University of Colorado since 1971.
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- Streetwalking the Metropolis: Women, the City, and Modernity by Deborah L. Parsons on page 71, and Back Matter
- On Foot: A History of Walking by Joseph Amato in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Bodies of Nature (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) by Phil Macnaghten on page 80, and page 106
- Seditious Allegories: John Thelwall & Jacobin Writing by Michael Henry Scrivener on page 223
- Romanticism, Theory, Gender (News from Nowhere) by Tony Pinkney on page 156
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