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| | Henry David Thoreau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Thoreau worked at his family's pencil factory in 1837-38, 1844, and 1849-50. | | | Today Thoreau is regarded as one of the foremost American writers, both for the modern clarity of his prose style and the prescience of his views on nature and politics. | | | Thoreau worked in his father's pencil workshop in 1837-1838. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
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| | Henry David Thoreau - Free Online Library |
| | Thoreau's primary genre was the essay, and his fascination with his natural surroundings is reflected in many of his writings dealing with totally different subjects. | | | From 1837 until 1838 Thoreau worked in his father's pencil factory, and again in 1844 and 1849 through 1850. | | | Thoreau lived in the third-floor attic of his parents' house and recorded his observations about vegetation surrounding Concord. |
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http://thoreau.thefreelibrary.com
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| | GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Henry David Thoreau |
| | Thoreau lived at the Emerson house for a time during 1841, working as a handyman. | | | His schooling was paid for by the money his father made as a pencil manufacturer, combined with contributions from his elder siblings salaries from their teaching jobs. | | | Thoreau spent the remainder of his life concentrating heavily on detailed, scientific naturalistic writing. |
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http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/authors/about_henry_thoreau.html
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| | Henry David Thoreau |
| | Thoreau's work was informed by an eclectic variety of sources. | | | Although his political essays have become justly famous, his works on natural science were not even published until the late twentieth century, and they help to give us a more complete picture of him as a thinker. | | | Thoreau has somewhat misleadingly been classified as a New England transcendentalist, and—even though he never rejected this label—it does not really fit. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thoreau
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| | Thoreau, Henry David on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Thoreau's writings, including his journals, were published in 20 volumes in 1906. | | | After graduation, Thoreau worked for a time in his father's pencil shop and taught at a grammar school, but in 1841 he was invited to live in the Emerson household, where he remained intermittently until 1843. | | | The journal, begun in 1837, was also the source of his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), as well as of his posthumously published Excursions (1863), The Maine Woods (1864), Cape Cod (1865), and A Yankee in Canada (1866). |
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http://encyclopedia.infonautics.com/html/T/Thoreau.asp
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| | The Academy of American Poets - Henry David Thoreau |
| | Although Thoreau thought of himself primarily as a poet during his early years, he was later discouraged in this pursuit and gradually came to feel that poetry was too confining. | | | It is as a prose writer that Thoreau made his most meaningful contributions, both as a stylist and as a philosopher. | | | In 1841, Thoreau was invited to live in the home of his neighbor, Ralph Waldo Emerson. |
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http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/601
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| | The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau |
| | Thoreau wrote about love in general and one relationship in particular in his Journal during 1839-1840 when he was quite smitten with Ellen Sewall; his brother John was also in love with her. | | | In 1862, shortly before he died, Thoreau is reported to have said to his sister, Sophia: "I have always loved her" (Walter Harding, The Days of Henry Thoreau, 104). | | | The Greene copy is in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. The third image is owned by the Thoreau Society and exhibited at the Thoreau Institute in Lincoln, MA. |
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http://www.thoreau.niu.edu/thoreau_faq.html
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| | Thoreau Reader |
| | Henry Thoreau as a Mirror of Ourselves - by Alfred Tauber | | | Three educators show how Henry Thoreau worked at his craft, and how his techniques can work for us today, with a middle school lesson plan and suggestions for nature writers. | | | The portrait above is a daguerreotype taken in 1856, when Henry was 39 years old. |
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http://thoreau.eserver.org/thoreau.html
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| | PAL: Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| | Thoreau never thought of the simplicity of his manner of living as a virtue in itself. | | | Although Thoreau wrote a considerable number of poems, very few are regarded as excellent. | | | It appears that Thoreau's temperament was more suited to writing prose or, more appropriately, poetic prose. |
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http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/thoreau.html
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| | Henry David Thoreau |
| | Henry David Thoreau was a complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life, seeing little difference between them. | | | His work is so rich, and so full of the complex contradictions that he explored, that his readers keep reshaping his image to fit their own needs. | | | While at Walden, Thoreau did an incredible amount of reading and writing, yet he also spent much time "sauntering" in nature. |
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http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau
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| | Today in History: July 12 |
| | Thoreau's advocacy of simple, principled living remains compelling, while his writings on the relationship between people and the environment helped define the nature essay. | | | His place in American letters is secure, however, as many continue to find inspiration in his work and his example. | | | When his writing failed to win money or acclaim, he turned surveyor to support himself. |
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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul12.html
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| | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| | Blake, William Ellery Channing, and Emerson kept Thoreau's reputation alive until Norman Foerster, F. Matthiessen, and an expanded group of later twentieth-century critics became convinced of the qualities of mind and art that have elevated Thoreau into the first rank of American prose writers. | | | Wyeth, the American painter, confessed to being "an enthusiastic student of Thoreau." Of major twentieth-century writers, Frost has probably been most indebted to Thoreau. | | | In his letters to H. Blake, Thoreau spells out his personal philosophy. |
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http://college.hmco.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/thoreau.html
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| | Henry David Thoreau |
| | Schneider, Richard J. "Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Landscape Painting." ESQ 31 (1985): 67-88. | | | Thoreau amongst Friends and Philistines, and other Thoreauviana. | | | Richardson, Robert D. Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind. |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/thorbib.htm
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| | Henry David Thoreau Resources at Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base |
| | Much of his poetry, letters, Journal entries, early essays, translations, and nature writings would be condemned to obscurity. | | | Today in History, from the American Memory Project, profiles Thoreau on his birthday. | | | By the end of the nineteenth-century, Thoreau and his works were much more popular and widely-known than when he was alive." |
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http://www.erraticimpact.com/~american/html/thoreau.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Walden: Books: Henry David Thoreau |
| | Harding was a founding member of the Thoreau Society and devoted his entire life to the man and his writings. | | | In my view, Thoreau is the wittiest and wisest writer America has produced and will be just as well read and loved in 500 years as he is today. | | | Such observations are highly relevant in our modern world based upon our frenzied capitalistic obsessions with long working hours, mass materialism and the media-driven madness to be surrounded by friends and family every moment of the day and night. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0395720427?v=glance
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| | Chapter Henry D. Thoreau of Index by Simonds History of American Literature |
| | Thoreau's ancestry was of mingled French and Scotch; his grandfather, John Thoreau, emigrated to New England from the island of Jersey about 1773, and settled in Concord in 1800. | | | Henry Thoreau's father was a maker of lead pencils, and was in rather poor circumstances. | | | It is characteristic of his career that but two of his books were published in his lifetime while his published writings now number twenty volumes. |
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http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/270/1820/21949/1.html
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| | The Blog of Henry David Thoreau |
| | Like a glass of single-malt scotch drunk neat, Thoreau’s stark, reflective prose has a memorable bite that ripens on the tongue." | | | Now it’s time for a rest of sorts from all that reading and searching and editing and typing. | | | "diaries of famous writers including...Henry David Thoreau have been spotted and you can even read...at the gentle pace of one page a day" |
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http://blogthoreau.blogspot.com
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| | HENRY DAVID THOREAU - LoveToKnow Article on HENRY DAVID THOREAU |
| | From his New England Puritan mother, from his Scottish grandmother, from his Jersey-American grandfather and from his remoter French ancestry Thoreau inherited distinctive traits: the Saxon element perhaps predominated, but the hauntings of Celtism were prevalent and potent. | | | He never married, thus further fulfilling his policy of what one of his essayist-biographers has termed indulgence in fine renouncements. | | | On the desertion of schoolmastering as a profession, Thoreau became a lecturer and author, though it was the labor of his hands which mainly supported him through many years of his life: professionally he was a surveyor. |
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http://www.1911ency.org/T/TH/THOREAU_HENRY_DAVID.htm
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| | IHAS: Poet |
| | From his Walden days, when he offered his cabin as a stop on the Underground Railway, to 1851, when he publically aligned himself with the Anti-Slavery Movement, Thoreau became a passionate advocate for abolition and one of the most outspoken defenders of John Brown. | | | He published with intensified vigor: THE MAINE WOODS in 1848, CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE in 1849, A YANKEE IN CANADA in 1853, WALDEN in 1854, CAPE COD in 1855, and a final group of essays in 1861. | | | Thoreau was graduated from Harvard in 1837 and returned to his hometown in search of an occupation. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/poet/thoreau.html
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| | Both poetry and philosophy, this long poetic essay challenges the reader to examine his or her life and live it authentically. | | | Henry David Thoreau, of French and Scottish descent, was born in Concord and made it his permanent home. | | | Thoreau felt that his contribution would be to renew a sense of the wilderness in language. |
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http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/thoreau.htm
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| | Henry David Thoreau (1817-62). |
| | He was educated at Harvard, and started out as a teacher; but, it not suiting him, Thoreau turned from it to the family business of making lead pencils and serving as a general handy man for the community. | | | Thoreau was a man of "simple and high thinking" and his writings proved to have more of an impact on the men of the 20th century than the men of his own century, the 19th, for instance Gandhi became convinced by reading Thoreau of the rightness of the principle of passive resistance and civil disobedience. | | | Thoreau, a person who considered that "time is but the stream I go a-fishing in"; a person who thought that "government is best which governs not at all"; a person who saw, everywhere about him, people who laboured "endlessly to make there lives more complex... |
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http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Literary/Thoreau.htm
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| | Henry David Thoreau biography and links to etext at Owl-Eyes |
| | Other collections of Thoreau's writing were only published after his death. | | | Only two of Thoreau's works were published during his lifetime, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers(1849) and Walden;or, Life in the Woods(1854). | | | From 1841-1843, Thoreau lived in the house of Ralph Waldo Emerson and was introduced to the philosophy known as transcendentalism. |
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http://owleyes.org/thoreau.htm
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| | Thoreau--Poems |
| | The definitive edition of Thoreau's poems is Carl Bode's Collected Poems of Henry Thoreau. | | | Great God, I ask for no meaner pelf |
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http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/thoreaupoems.html
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| | Henry David Thoreau |
| | His famous experiment in living close to nature, and his equally famous night in jail to protest an inhuman institution and an unjust war, are distilled in his best known works, Walden and "Civil Disobedience." | | | And the book that resulted, far from being a straightforward chronicle, is the work of a literary artist - a multi-layered, orchestrated text alive with wordplay and humor. | | | Thoreau dedicated his life to the exploration of nature - not as a backdrop to human activity but as a living, integrated system of which you and I are simply a part. |
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http://www.calliope.org/thoreau/thoreau.html
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| | Walden, Thoreau and the Environment |
| | New paperback edition of Walden, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer, Curator of Collections at the Walden Woods Project, available for purchase! | | | preserves the land, literature and legacy of Henry David Thoreau | | | Copyright © 2006 by The Walden Woods Project |
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http://www.walden.org
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| | Henry David Thoreau - Wikiquote |
| | Wikisource has original works written by or about Henry David Thoreau. | | | He gave this lecture many times, developing it into the essay finally published in the Atlantic Monthly after his death, in 1862. | | | Henry David Thoreau (12 July 1817 - 6 May 1862) was an American writer and philosopher; born David Henry Thoreau |
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
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| | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| | Henry Thoreau: His Life, His Works (Keith Ericson) | | | Download Thoreau books from from 1st Books Library: | | | Resources for the Study of Henry David Thoreau (Stephen Adams, the Univ.of Minnesota at Duluth) |
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| | Thoreau Links |
| | Ken Pedersen has recorded a CD of Walden inspired music. | | | Perhaps the best Thoreau site, with e-texts of almost all of his works, biographical info, scholarship, and lots more. | | | Michael has some beautiful Thoreau notecards, with his original woodcuts and Thoreau quotes. |
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http://www.mcelhearn.com/thoreau/thoreaulinks.html
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| | HENRY DAVID THOREAU |
| | And in New England, Henry David Thoreau refused to pay a poll tax as a symbol of his opposition to the war, and spent a night in jail as a result. | | | Thoreau worked at a number of jobs, including surveyer, handyman, and Emerson's editorial assistant for the journal Dial, for which he wrote extensively. | | | For further reading: Edward Wagenknecht, Henry David Thoreau: What Manner of Man? (1981); K. Jack Bauer, The Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 (1974); and John H. Schroeder, Mr. |
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http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/19.htm
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| | Thoreau's Civil Disobedience |
| | Because this essay is often associated with passive civil disobediance, some have assumed that Thoreau's later support of John Brown was a change from his earlier position. | | | The lesson learned from all this experience is that Thoreau's ideas really do work, just as he imagined they would. | | | In the 1940's it was read by the Danish resistance, in the 1950's it was cherished by people who opposed McCarthyism, in the 1960's it was influential in the struggle against South African apartheid, and in the 1970's it was discovered by a new generation of anti-war activists. |
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| | The Thoreau Society Homepage |
| | To stimulate interest in and foster education about Thoreau's life, works, and philosophy and his place in his world and ours; To encourage research on Thoreau’s life and writings; To act as a repository for Thoreauviana and material relevant to Thoreau; And to advocate for the preservation of Thoreau Country. | | | to promoting Thoreau's life and works through education, outreach, and advocacy. | | | The Thoreau Society is the oldest and largest organization devoted to an American author and is dedicated |
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| | History of Vegetarianism - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| | U.S.writer, note esp. for Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854), an account of his experiment in living in solitude. | | | History of Vegetarianism - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
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| | Quoteland :: Quotations by Author |
| | -Henry David Thoreau, Walden, from “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” | | | I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. | | | -Henry David Thoreau, Walden, "Where I lived, And What I Lived For" |
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| | Henry David Thoreau quotes |
| | Authors > Hen Hen > Henry David Thoreau | | | Add the "Dynamic Daily Quotation" to Your Site or Blog - it's Easy! |
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