EPISODE · Feb 4, 2026 · 59 MIN
H. D. Thoreau, "A Winter Walk" & two poems ("Sic Vita," "Conscience . . .")
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Episode 13 (or season 2, episode 1 = §2.1) introduces Henry David Thoreau's ecological prose to The Reading Hour with the essay "A Winter Walk" (1843) and serves us as a preface to the longer Thoreauvian work to come: The Maine Woods (1864). The hour concludes with two of Thoreau's poems: "Sic Vita" and "Conscience is instinct bred in the house").
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