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,...

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,...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

The modern business environment is growing complicated as more and more innovations are developed to assist workers in their jobs. This scenario contradicts the views of Henry David Thoreau regarding the need for simple living. "Simplify, simplify," wrote Thoreau in 1854, having gone...

ON 22 October 1837, Henry David Thoreau, then 21 years old and a recent graduate of Harvard, began to keep a journal. He continued to do so for the next quarter-century, until ill-health forced him to stop some months before he died of...

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...

Tom Slayton set out hoping to renew interest in Henry David Thoreau, using his feet and his pen.It turned out that following Thoreau's footsteps to Cape Cod, Walden Pond and Maine's Mount Katahdin burnished his own admiration of the "Walden" author. Now, he hopes the...

In the following excerpt, Johnson relates the troubled ten‐year history of A Week, from the river trip to initial publication.

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.

In the following essay, Ford offers an analysis of the themes, imagery, and structure of the poems.

Provides biographical detail on the life of writer/philosopher Henry David Thoreau. Examines his body of work. Compares him to his contemporaries.

Discusses Emerson and Thoreau's views on nature and how they relate to each other.

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