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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Henry David Thoreau ( 12 July 1817 - 6 May 1862 ) was an American writer and philosopher; born David Henry Thoreau See also: Walden Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Journals (1838-1859) 1.2 Civil Disobedience (1849) 1.3 A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers...


Biography

Name: Henry David Thoreau
Birth Date: July 12, 1817
Death Date: May 6, 1862
Place of Birth: Concord, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Death: Concord, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of Henry David Thoreau
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In his own day, Henry David Thoreau was little known outside his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, where he was much admired for his passionate stance on social issues, his deep knowledge of natural history, and the originality of his lectures,...
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Biography of Henry David Thoreau
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Generally unrecognized in his own day or, worse, dismissed as a second-rate imitator of his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, in the twentieth century, has emerged as one of America's greatest literary figures. Walden; Or,...
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Biography of Henry David Thoreau
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Generally unrecognized in his own day or, worse, dismissed as a second-rate imitator of his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, in the twentieth century, has emerged as one of America's greatest literary figures. Walden, his...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862) American Writer and Natural Philosopher Summary
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Thoreau was a member of the group of radical Transcendentalists who lived in New England, especially Concord, Massachusetts, around the mid-nineteenth century. He is known worldwide for two written works, both still widely read and influential today:...
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Thoreau, Henry David (1817–1862) Summary
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Thoreau, Henry David(1817–1862) Henry David Thoreau once described himself as "a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher." If this description does some justice to the extent of Thoreau's eclecticism, it...
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Thoreau, Henry David Summary
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Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on July 12, and died there of tuberculosis on May 6, two months shy of his forty-fifth birthday. He is best known as the author of Walden (1854), an account of the two years...
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Henry David Thoreau Information
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Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau[1]) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, and philosopher who is best known for Walden, a reflection upon simple living in...


News and Journals
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The Washington Post
Henry David Thoreau once said ...
04/22/2001: 560 words, approx. 2 pages
Henry David Thoreau once said "It takes two to speak the truth -- one to speak and another to hear." As Bill McKibben points out above, something very similar could be said about activist writing. It takes one to foment; but it takes another...
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Works of Henry David Thoreau: Critical Commentary
01/01/1963: 6,669 words, approx. 22 pages
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Critical Commentary As is true of most writers who have offered any sort of controversial material to the world, Thoreau, along with his most representative writings Walden and "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," has met with a fluctuating critical appraisal...
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AP Features
Tips for taking pictures in the fall
9/24/2007: 311 words, approx. 1 pages
Photographer Ferenc Mate lives in Tuscany, but his latest book portrays the colors and landscapes of the woods, coast, farmhouses and even the doorsteps and porches of New England in the fall.His book, "A New England Autumn: A Sentimental Journey" (Albatross Books/W.W. Norton, $39.95), also...
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Free at Last: A LutherKing Quiz
10/8/2007: 322 words, approx. 1 pages
Question 1 of 10:His is one of the most famous names in history, Martin Luther King was originally christened...?Walter Michael RonaldJamesQuestion 2 of 10: Martin 's philosophy of non-violent protest was influenced both by Gandhi and the views of which great US writer? Walt Whitman...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Linck C. Johnson
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In the following excerpt, Johnson relates the troubled ten‐year history of A Week, from the river trip to initial publication.
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Critical Essay by Frederick Garber
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In the following excerpt, Garber argues that Thoreau inserted the Saddleback Mountain climbing episode in order to show the insufficiency of textual and temporal closures.
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Critical Essay by Arthur L. Ford
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In the following essay, Ford offers an analysis of the themes, imagery, and structure of the poems.
 
Featured Essays
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Henry David Thoreau
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Provides biographical detail on the life of writer/philosopher Henry David Thoreau. Examines his body of work. Compares him to his contemporaries.
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Defying Our Common Identity: Emerson and Thoreau's Views on Nature
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Discusses Emerson and Thoreau's views on nature and how they relate to each other.
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Cotton Mather vs. Henry David Thoreau on Native Americans
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Both Cotton Mather and Henry David Thoreau put their views of Native Americans in writing based on the account of the capture of Hannah Dustan, a Puritan victim of Indian cruelty. In Mather's "A Notable Exploit: Dux Faemina Facti," part of his Magnalia Christi Americana, he puts forth a cynical attitude towards Native Americans. Thoreau, meanwhile, in his "Thursday" chapter of his A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, displays a more neutral attitude. Both authors prove a negative
 


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