Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862) American Writer and Natural Philosopher
Thoreau was a member of the group of radical Transcendentalists who lived in New England, especially Concord, Massachus...
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Thoreau, Henry David
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 b...
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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 ...
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American writer, a dissenter, and, after Emerson, the outstanding transcendentalist. He is best known for his classic book, "Walden."Though a minority of one, la...
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American philosopher Henry David Thoreau "has for today a special appeal," noted Townsend Scudder in his foreword to the Modern Library edition to Walden and Other Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Scu...
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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 o...
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John Aldrich Christie best captures the paradoxes and contradictions in Henry David Thoreau's treatment of travel. He characterizes Thoreau as "a man who on the one hand reiterates his disdain for tra...
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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...
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Though not a professional philosopher, Henry David Thoreau is recognized as an important contributor to the American literary and philosophical movement known as New England Transcendentalism. His ess...
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Biography EssayGenerally 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 eme...
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Throughout Henry David Thoreau's writings I have learned a couple things from him that are useful and true about today's society. Thoreau's view on society could impact the way we live and could also...
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Sarah Barrett
11/13/02
U.S. Literature
Thoreau vs. Emerson
Assignment
Emerson the See-er; Thoreau the Doer
Working Together to Mold Minds
1. "The popular fable of the sot who...on his waking, ...
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The short story, "Young Goodman Brown," written by Hawthorne fits in with all the other stories we read so far in the Romanticism era. The Hawthorne's story ties in with the ideas of Irving, Thorpe, a...
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Throughout our preceding generations, people have always questioned religious values and purposes. The populace has always had an underlying uncertainty about author of the scriptures of the first f...
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A significant philosopher of the Romantic Period, Henry David Thoreau unconventionally sets out to find true meaning in humanity by uncovering simplistic aspects of life that are often overlooked. A f...
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Followers of the Transcendentalist movement stressed the religious, philosophical and ideological importance of life. Henry David Thoreau was a staunch supporter of the movement. Thoreau felt that ...
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American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher, but he was best known for his autobiographical story of life in the woods, WALDEN (1854). Henry David Thoreau became one of the leading men in New E...
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Henry Thoreau writes about the spread of technology in his day. He greatly supports a natural life that is full of simplicity and nothing more. He believed that humans were never made to advance in t...
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Thoreau and Transcendentalism
Living a life of solitude on the shores of Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau, author of the philosophical work Walden, illustrates his firm beliefs in transcen...
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Thoreau and King
Many times in American history citizens have disagreed with the laws of the government and felt the need to revolt. During such periods of time Martin Luther King Jr. and Henry Davi...
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Henry David Thoreau begins his novel of Walden with giving a brief summary on where he is, and the philosophy on why he is there. He also describes how he feels about the people in the society and how...
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During the late years of the 17th Century, the Native Americans and Puritan settlers had struggled to get along. Due to their clashing views on political and cultural issues, neither faction regarded ...
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) American Writer and Natural Philosopher
Thoreau, Henry David
Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
