HUDSON, W(illiam) H(enry)

HUDSON, W(illiam) H(enry): (1841-1922)

   UK naturalist and writer, born in Argentina. His fine quasi- UTOPIAN novel of the FAR FUTURE, A Crystal Age (1887 anon; signed, with a new preface, 1906) depicts small, self-sufficient, matriarchally organized households living in harmony with Nature. The protagonist, tragically, cannot adapt to their PASTORAL way of life. A similar quasisupernatural harmony with the Amazonian forest is enjoyed by the wild girl Rima - the last of her race - in the affectingly powerful novel Green Mansions (1904); she is ultimately destroyed by the local Indians, who are no morein tune with Nature than is the unhappy civilized protagonist. Both stories are remarkable anticipations of modern ecological mysticism (ECOLOGY). "Marta Riquelme", in El Ombu (coll 1902), is an equally feverishfantasy in which the eponymous woman undergoes sorrow-induced metamorphosis into a bird. A Little Boy Lost (1905) is a children's fantasy which further develops Hudson's peculiar fascination with maternal figures.

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Hudson — Hudson1 [hud′sən] 1. Henry died 1611; Eng. explorer, esp. of the waters about NE North America 2. W(illiam) H(enry) 1841 1922; Eng. naturalist & writer Hudson2 [hud′sən] [after HUDSON1 Henry] river in E N.Y., flowing southward into Upper New York … English World dictionary
Hudson — I. biographical name Henry died 1611 English navigator & explorer II. biographical name Manley Ottmer 1886 1960 American jurist III. biographical name W(illiam) H(enry) 1841 1922 English naturalist & writer IV. geographical name 1. river 306… … New Collegiate Dictionary
Henry — ► sustantivo masculino ELECTRICIDAD Denominación del henrio en la nomenclatura internacional. IRREG. plural henrys * * * henrio o henry (de J. Henry, físico inglés) m. Fís. Unidad de inductancia eléctrica en el Sistema Internacional. * * * … Enciclopedia Universal
henry — ► sustantivo masculino ELECTRICIDAD Denominación del henrio en la nomenclatura internacional. IRREG. plural henrys * * * henrio o henry (de J. Henry, físico inglés) m. Fís. Unidad de inductancia eléctrica en el Sistema Internacional. * * * henry … Enciclopedia Universal

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