Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
Autor/a de Walden o la vida als boscos
Sobre l'autor
In September 1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne noted this social encounter in his journal: "Mr. Thorow dined with us yesterday. He is a singular character---a young man with much of wild original nature still remaining in him; and so far as he is sophisticated, it is in a way and method of his own. He is mostra'n més as ugly as sin, long-nosed, queer-mouthed, and with uncouth and somewhat rustic, although courteous manners, corresponding very well with such an exterior. But his ugliness is of an honest and agreeable fashion, and becomes him much better than beauty. On the whole, I find him a healthy and wholesome man to know." Most responses to Thoreau are as ambiguously respectful as was Hawthorne's. Thoreau was neither an easy person to like nor an easy writer to read. Thoreau described himself as a mystic, a Transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher. He is a writer of essays about nature---not of facts about it but of his ideals and emotions in its presence. His wish to understand nature led him to Walden Pond, where he lived from 1845 to 1847 in a cabin that he built. Though he was an educated man with a Harvard degree, fluent in ancient and modern German, he preferred to study nature by living "a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust." Knowing this, we should beware of misreading the book that best reflected this great experience in Thoreau's life: Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854). It is not a handbook of the simple life. Though there are elements in the book of a "whole-earth catalogue" mentality, to focus on the radical "economic" aspects of Thoreau's work is to miss much in the book. Nor is it an autobiography. The right way to read Walden is as a "transcendental" narrative prose poem, whose hero is a man named Henry, a modern Odysseus in search of a "true America." Thoreau left Walden Pond on September 6, 1846, exactly two years, two months, and two days after he had settled there. As he explained in the pages of Walden: "I left the woods for as good a reason as I went to live there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one." Growth, change, and development were essential to his character. One should not overlook the significance of his selecting July 4 as the day for taking possession of his residence at Walden Pond, a day that celebrates the establishment of a new government whose highest ideal is individual freedom. In terms of Thoreau's redefinition of the nation-idea, "the only true America" is that place where one may grow wild according to one's nature, where one may "enjoy the land, but own it not." Thoreau believed that each person should live according to individual conscience, willing to oppose the majority if necessary. An early proponent of nonviolent resistance, he was jailed briefly for refusing to pay his poll tax to support the Mexican War and the slave system that had promoted that war. His essay "On Civil Disobedience" (1849), which came from this period of passive resistance, was acknowledged by Mahatma Gandhi (who read it in a South African jail) as the basis for his campaign to free India. Martin Luther King, Jr. later attributed to Thoreau and Gandhi the inspiration for his leadership in the civil rights movement in the United States. Thoreau contracted tuberculosis in 1835 and suffered from it sporadically afterwards. His health declined over three years with brief periods of remission, until he eventually became bedridden. Recognizing the terminal nature of his disease, Thoreau spent his last years revising and editing his unpublished works, particularly The Maine Woods and Excursions, and petitioning publishers to print revised editions of A Week and Walden. He died on May 6, 1862 at age 44. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de Henry David Thoreau
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Walden / The Maine Woods / Cape Cod (1849) 869 exemplars
Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion Of Seeds And Other Late Natural History Writings (1993) 283 exemplars
Walden / The Maine Woods / A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Civil Disobedience (1996) 47 exemplars
The Concord and the Merrimack; excerpts from A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1954) 41 exemplars
Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil disobedience, Life without principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A plea for Captain John… (1996) 33 exemplars
Civil Disobedience, Solitude and Life Without Principle (Literary Classics (Prometheus Books)) (2011) 25 exemplars
Henry David Thoreau, The Poet's Delay: A Collection of Poetry by America's Greatest Observer of Nature (1992) 23 exemplars
The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) (2004) 21 exemplars
Henry David Thoreau: Walden, The Maine Woods, Collected Essays and Poems: A Library of America College Edition (Library… (2007) — Autor — 21 exemplars
The wind that blows is all that anybody knows;: The thoughts of Henry David Thoreau (A Stanyan book, 5) (1970) 20 exemplars
A Yearning Toward Wildness: Environmental Quotations from the Writings of Henry David Thoreau (1991) 18 exemplars
Early Spring in Massachusetts (The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: with Bibliographical Introductions and Full… (1893) 17 exemplars
The Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau: Canoeing in the Wilderness, Walden, Walking, Civil Disobedience and More (2012) 15 exemplars
Thoreau: Walden / The Maine Woods / A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Civil Disobedience (1997) 15 exemplars
Consciousness in Concord; the text of Thoreau's hitherto "lost journal," 1840-1841 (1958) 14 exemplars
In the Woods and Fields of Concord: Selections from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau (1982) 14 exemplars
The Correspondence of Henry D. Thoreau: Volume 1: 1834 - 1848 (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) (2013) 14 exemplars
The Daily Henry David Thoreau: A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season (2020) 13 exemplars
Resistance to Civil Government and Other Writings (Books That Changed the World Series) (2005) 13 exemplars
Of Woodland Pools, Spring-Holes and Ditches: Excerpts from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau (2010) 12 exemplars
Résister: à la tentation du laissez-faire, au réformisme et à l'esprit commercial des… (2011) 11 exemplars
Civil Disobedience; Walden (selections); The Death of Ivan Ilych (Great Books Foundation First Year Course, VIII) (1955) 11 exemplars
WALDEN - and Other Writings: Civil Disobedience; Slavery in Massachusetts; A Plea for Captain John Brown; Life Without… (2000) 11 exemplars
Grolier Classics: Robinson Crusoe, Walden, Mediations of Marcus Aurelius, Oedipus the King (1956) 10 exemplars
To Live Deliberately: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For (Obvious State Classics Collection) (2019) 9 exemplars
The Thoreau Log: A Documentary Life of Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 (American Authors Log) (1992) 9 exemplars
Transcendentalism Collection: Thoreau’s Walden, Walking & Civil Disobedience, Emerson’s Self-Reliance,… (2020) 7 exemplars
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Volume 8: 1854. (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) (2002) 7 exemplars
Guide to Cape Cod; based on Cape Cod 7 exemplars
The Essential Henry David Thoreau Collection: 4 Books in 1 | Walden | Civil Disobedience | A Week on the Concord and… (2021) 6 exemplars
Vom Wandern: [Was bedeutet das alles?] (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek) (German Edition) (2013) 6 exemplars
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Volume 7: 1853-1854 (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) (2009) 5 exemplars
Thoreau, The Maine Woods: A Photographic Journey through an American Wildliberness (2013) 4 exemplars
The Correspondence of Henry D. Thoreau: Volume 2: 1849-1856 (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) (2018) 4 exemplars
Thoreau's complete works 4 exemplars
Denken mit Henry David Thoreau: Von Natur und Zivilisation, Einsamkeit und Freundschaft, Wissenschaft und Politik (2008) 4 exemplars
Miscellanies. with an autobiographical sketch by Ralph Waldo Emerson and a general index to the writings 4 exemplars
The Dream of the Toad 3 exemplars
The transmigration of the seven Brahmans; a translation from the Harivansa of Langlois (1932) 3 exemplars
Simplify: Selected Writings from Henry David Thoreau; Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Reform and… (2010) 3 exemplars
The Library a Wilderness 3 exemplars
Poems of Nature 3 exemplars
Vita di uno scrittore 2 exemplars
Primavera 2 exemplars
The New Walden 2 exemplars
Antique Rare A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers ~ Thoreau ~ Limited Editions Club 2 exemplars
A Great Deal of Trouble About Shoe-Strings 2 exemplars
A Desobediência Civil Seguido de Walden. Rebeldes e Malditos. Convencional (Em Portuguese do Brasil) (2016) 2 exemplars
The First And Last Journeys Of Thoreau: Lately Discovered Among His Unpublished Journals And Manuscripts (2007) 2 exemplars
Selections from Thoreau 2 exemplars
L'esprit commercial des temps modernes et son influence sur le caractère politique, moral et littéraire d'une nation (2007) 2 exemplars
Walden (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) 150th Anniversary e edition by Thoreau, Henry David (2004) Paperback (2004) 2 exemplars
Pensoj el Valdeno 2 exemplars
Henry David Thoreau: The Complete Collection 2 exemplars
Cape Cod : volume II 2 exemplars
La d©♭sob©♭issance civile ; suivi de Visiteurs : propos sur un b© cheron canadien-fran©ʹais (1982) 2 exemplars
A desobediência civil 1 exemplars
Shoe-strings 1 exemplars
コッド岬 浜辺の散策 1 exemplars
Уолден или Жизнь в лесу 1 exemplars
Here then is that helpful as well as enobling discourse entitled the essay on friendship 1 exemplars
Mosbindja Civile 1 exemplars
ソロー 博物誌 1 exemplars
Жизнь вне условий 1 exemplars
Walden 1 exemplars
Nature Walking 1 exemplars
Les forêts du Maine : Suivi de Une excursion au Wachusett et La succession des arbres en forêt (2018) 1 exemplars
La vida en los bosques 1 exemplars
Sobre la desobediencia civil. Walden y la vida en los bosques. Los últimos días de John Brown. Profesión de fe (2014) 1 exemplars
Walden and other selected Writings 1 exemplars
ヘンリー・ソロー全日記 1851年 1 exemplars
Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience 1 exemplars
Thoreau and Emerson: Nature and Spirit 1 exemplars
The Angle of Dazzle 1 exemplars
A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-slavery and reform papers. By Henry D. Thoreau. 1866 [Leather Bound] 1 exemplars
Walden, sau viața în pădure 1 exemplars
Henry David Thoreau The Maine Woods 1 exemplars
Walden and Civil Disobedience (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) [WALDEN & CIVIL DISOBEDIENC -OS] 1 exemplars
On the study of disobedience 1 exemplars
Week of the Concord 1 exemplars
Camminare e disobbedire. Le radici filosofiche dell'ambientalismo e del pacifismo (2013) 1 exemplars
The Works of Henry David Thoreau 1 exemplars
DESOBEDIÊNCIA CIVIL (P10L37) 1 exemplars
The Variorum, Walden, Civil Disobediance 1 exemplars
Desobediencia civil y otros escritos 1 exemplars
Opere scelte 1 exemplars
L'esclavage au Massachusetts : Le journal Heald of Freedom ; Wensell Philips au lycéum de Concord (2018) 1 exemplars
Spring 1 exemplars
The Maine Woods and Walden 1 exemplars
THOREAU - Four Writings 1 exemplars
Walden and Other Writings of Henry David Thoreau 1 exemplars
American writers series 1 exemplars
Journal (volumes 2–12 & 14) 1 exemplars
ROBINSON CRUSOE Franklin Library 1 exemplars
Gens de Concord 1 exemplars
In Wildness is the Preservation of the World 1 exemplars
Camping in the Maine woods 1 exemplars
Walden ; Sartor Resartus 1 exemplars
Walden, or Life inthe woods 1 exemplars
Thoreau Tolstoy 1 exemplars
Matin intérieur: Et autres textes de jeunesse 1 exemplars
Vivre comme un prince: Écrits de jeunesse 1 exemplars
Desobeir 1 exemplars
Days of Civil Disobedience DESK CALENDAR 1970 / 2015 (with photos of civil disobedience) (1970) 1 exemplars
Walden or, Life in the Woods And Other Writings 1 exemplars
Życie bez zasad : eseje 1 exemplars
Cape Cod, vol. 1 1 exemplars
Some unpublished letters of Henry D. and Sophia E. Thoreau; a chapter in the history of a still-born book .. (2007) 1 exemplars
Days of Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau's Essay on the Duty of Civil Disobedience with Photographs of… (1970) 1 exemplars
La montagne : Une marche au Wachusett ; Histoire d'une montagne, chapitres 1 et 2 (2012) 1 exemplars
An Ideal 1 exemplars
Selected writings 1 exemplars
Sense títol 1 exemplars
Thoreau's Journals — Autor — 1 exemplars
Henry David Thoreau on Education 1 exemplars
Ktaadn and the Maine Woods in Sartain's union magazine of literature and art, July-Dec. 1848 1 exemplars
The succession of forest trees, and Wild apples 1 exemplars
[Title page of Henry D. Thoreau, Walden; or life in the woods, 1854, showing Thoreau's hut at Walden Pond,… 1 exemplars
Resistance to Civil Government and other Essays 1 exemplars
A Walk to Land's End 1 exemplars
The Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (9 Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau Including Cape Cod, Excursions, On… (2015) 1 exemplars
Friendship, Love & Marriage By Henry D. Thoreau and a Little Journey to Henry D. (1923) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Henry David Thoreau Collection: Walden, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,… (2021) 1 exemplars
Coratge cívic 1 exemplars
Rare 1936 Men of Concord: The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, Illust: NC Wyeth HCDJ (1777) 1 exemplars
The Maine Woods (1864) 1 exemplars
Thoreau’s Journals 1 exemplars
A Button Intercepts the Light and Casts a Shadow 1 exemplars
The Walk to Land's End 1 exemplars
Woodshed 1 exemplars
Summer (misfiled) 1 exemplars
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Vol II 1 exemplars
Two fragments from the Journals 1 exemplars
Week on the Concord and Merrimak rivers 1 exemplars
“Sic Vita” 1 exemplars
“Pray to What Earth does This Sweet Cold Belong” 1 exemplars
The writings of Henry David Thoreau. Volume I: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 1 exemplars
The writings of Henry David Thoreau ; with bibliographical introductions and full indexes Volume 10 1 exemplars
Kring Bellman 1 exemplars
Still Deep & Sweet 1 exemplars
The Illustrated modern library 1 exemplars
The Chronicles of the Cid 1 exemplars
The Poems of Henry David Thoreau 1 exemplars
Walden and Other Writing of Henry David Thoreau 1 exemplars
Collected Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated): Philosophical and Autobiographical Books, Essays, Poetry,… (2017) 1 exemplars
Thoreau: The Essential Collection 1 exemplars
Survey of a Swamp 1 exemplars
On Water 1 exemplars
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau with Bibliographical Introductions and… (1906) 1 exemplars
Henry David Thoreau Collection: Walden, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Walking, and Cape Cod (2020) 1 exemplars
Περπατώντας 1 exemplars
Succession of forest trees 1 exemplars
A wood fire from Walden 1 exemplars
نافرمانی مدنی 1 exemplars
A Tribute to John Brown 1 exemplars
Reform and the Reformers 1 exemplars
Thomas Carlyle and His Works 1 exemplars
VIDA SIN PRINCIPIOS / DESOBEDIENCIA CIVIL 1 exemplars
On Land 1 exemplars
A Vida nos Bosques 1 exemplars
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- Nom oficial
- Thoreau, David Henry
- Data de naixement
- 1817-07-12
- Data de defunció
- 1862-05-06
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts, USA
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Concord, Massachusetts, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Concord, Massachusetts, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Concord, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA - Educació
- Harvard College (AB|1837)
- Professions
- teacher
writer
essayist
poet
philosopher
inventor (mostra-les totes 7)
pencil maker - Relacions
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (friend)
Alcott, Louisa May (student)
Fuller, Margaret (friend)
Jackson, Lidian (friend) - Organitzacions
- Underground Railroad
Huckleberry Party
Transcendentalism - Biografia breu
- Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he 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 attention to practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.
He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.
Thoreau is sometimes referred to as an anarchist. Though "Civil Disobedience" seems to call for improving rather than abolishing government—"I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government"—the direction of this improvement contrarily points toward anarchism: "'That government is best which governs not at all;' and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have."
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