ENGL 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Novum Organum, Nature Writing
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Transiion lecture: nature, travel wriing and the quest . From pollan and jamie to davidson, krakauer and kincaid. If any man there be who, not content to rest in and use the knowledge which has already been discovered, aspires to penetrate further . (francis bacon, preface to novum organum, 1620: ideas of separaion. Gardeners like me tend to think such choices are our sovereign prerogaive (pollan, botany of. Like the apple blossom, whose form and scent have been selected by bees over countless generaions, the size and taste of the potato have been (pollan, botany of desire xiv xv) The carvings were diicult to see at irst, they were so old and weatherworn. A wintery shadow casing sun would have helped, or a recent shower (jamie markings p. 93) Reader learns to dissent(other truths that we don"t know) Pollan and jamie are also both travel writers.
