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In "The Last Days of John Brown", Thoreau described the words and deeds of John Brown as noble and an example of heroism. [102] In addition, he lamented the newspaper editors who dismissed Brown and his scheme as "crazy". [102] Thoreau was a proponent of limited government and individualism.
Oct 23, 2024 · Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher renowned for having lived the doctrines of Transcendentalism as recorded in his masterwork, Walden (1854), and for having been a vigorous advocate of civil liberties, as evidenced in the essay ‘Civil Disobedience’ (1849).
Sep 16, 2024 · Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American philosopher and writer. He was a transcendentalist and is most famous for his book Walden and his essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. What was Thoreau's main belief?
Jun 30, 2005 · Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American philosopher, poet, environmental scientist, and political activist whose major work, Walden, draws upon each of these various identities in meditating upon the concrete problems of living in the world as a human being.
Henry David Thoreau is recognized as an important contributor to the American literary and philosophical movement known as New England transcendentalism. His essays, books, and poems weave together two central themes over the course of his intellectual career: nature and the conduct of life.
A biography of Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American writer, essayist, philosopher, poet, and pacifist. Henry was born on July 12, 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts.
Oct 23, 2024 · Thoreau’s two famous symbolic actions, his two years in the cabin at Walden Pond and his night in jail for civil disobedience, represent his personal enactment of the doctrines of New England Transcendentalism as expressed by his friend and associate Emerson, among others.
A compendium of the very best of the writings of author, poet and naturalist, Henry David Thoreau, along with several excellent historical biographies, noteworthy analyses and criticisms of his work and thought, complemented by an overview of the most influential among his contemporaries within the American Transcendentalism movement which was ...
In this excerpt from Henry David Thoreau: A Life (University of Chicago Press, 2017), NEH grantee Laura Dassow Walls chronicles the turning point when Thoreau sold his first articles and began recording the observations that would make him famous.He was thirty years old, and, though not yet an established writer, he understood that “beauty & art” were his vocation.
Henry David Thoreau. 1817 –. 1862. Read poems by this poet. Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on July 12, 1817. He was introduced to the countryside at a young age, and this first contact with the natural world sparked a lifelong fascination.
