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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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Volume 8: ...
 A day by day look at Thoreau: "Oct. 22nd, 1837. 'What are you doing now?' he asked, 'Do you keep a journal?'-- So I make my first entry today." Thus begins Thoreau's Journal, made up of more then two million words and covering about twenty-five [... 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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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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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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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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