Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. He spent time as a school teacher after attending Harvard College but was dismissed for his refusal to administer corporal punishment. In 1845, wanting to write his first book, he ... [... more]
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New Suns Will Arise : From the Journals of Henry David ...
 SIGHT BEYOND THE PHYSICAL: It is obvious that the present day photographer, John Dugdale, has been greatly influenced by the 19th century Transcendentalist writer, Henry David Thoreau. In this superb book of Dugdale's photographs and selections from [... more]
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Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau: American Men of Letters
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts. His father worked successively as a farmer, a grocer, and a manufacturer of pencils, and the family was frequently in difficult financial straits. After studying locally, ... [... more]
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Sweet Wild World: Henry David Thoreau; Selections from ...
Sweet Wild World: Henry David Thoreau; Selections from the Journals Arranged As Poetry [... more]
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Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau And ...
Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau And Nineteenth-Century Natural Science (science And Literature Series) [... more]
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July 12 Events and Holidays - Today in History
Henry David Thoreau's name was David Henry Thoreau until he changed it. Minnie Riperton is the mom of the very funny Maya Rudolph who is a regular on Saturday Night Live. Henry David Thoreau was born Today in History... - July 12 Events and ... [... more]
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Sometimes a Poetaster - Henry David Thoreau - Poetry
The self-effacing remark that he was "sometimes a Poetaster" no doubt sheds some light on Thoreau's reputation as a poet-that attitude coupled with the fact that he did write fewer poems than essays. But on the other hand, Thoreau probably ... [... more]
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Gerald Hausman
It's July 4, 1845. A soft-spoken young man named Henry David Thoreau has carefully constructed a small, simple cabin in the woods overlooking Walden Pond. For the next two years, his closest companions will be the chickadees, the woodchucks, and ... [... more]
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Michael McCurdy
In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. During the two years and two months he spent there, he began to write Walden, a chronicle of his communion with nature that became ... [... more]
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was a renowned lecturer and writer, whose ideas on philosophy, religion, and literature influenced many writers, including Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. After an undergraduate career at Harvard, he studied ... [... more]
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