Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American philosopher—a disciple of American Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson—and a writer, best known as the author of Walden, which proposed a program of ...
A book about rethinking education systems through the lens of Henry David Thoreau. Poetry about postpartum depression. A novel about happenings in the fictional town of Glenville, Vt. All are among ...
A vision emerges unbidden, seemingly delivered not from inside the mind, but from outside, as though from the gods, or the God, arriving through some superhuman or supernatural force, an offering to ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Henry David Thoreau’s classic book Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854) helped establish the nature writing tradition ...
Thoreau is introduced to Ralph Waldo Emerson and the radical ideas of transcendentalism. After graduating from Harvard Divinity School, Henry David Thoreau is introduced to an electrifying new social ...