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noun - United States writer and social critic (1817-1862)
THOREAU - Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax r...
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| Born July 12, 1817 in Concord, this writer who liked his alone time had only 2 books published in his lifetime |
| In "Second Nature", Michael Pollan told of buying a Connecticut farm & following in the path of this "Walden" man |
| This writer got some serious me-time while living "Life in the Woods" from 1845 to 1847 |
| King wrote, "this courageous New Englander's... choice of jail" was his first contact with nonviolent resistance theory |
| Laura Dassow Walls tried to capture this many-sided man in a book published 200 years after his 1817 birth in Concord |
| He sat out the first 2 years of the Polk presidency alone at a pond, though he did spend a night in jail for not paying a poll tax |
| This author was jailed in Concord in 1846 for refusing to pay taxes in protest of the Mexican-American War |
| His 1854 book began, "When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods" |
| Brown was supported by transcendentalist writers like Emerson & this friend who gave a "Plea for Captain John Brown" |
| Perhaps in an act of "Civil Disobedience", this transcendentalist reversed the order of his first & middle names |
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Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. * Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close observation of nature, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and Yankee attenti |