The Walk

This work is a stroll through romantic, modern and contemporary literature. "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 - in the country or city, during day or night, along 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 readers the shared pleasures of reading, writing and walking.