HenryDavidThoreau
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HenryDavidThoreau (July1817-May1862) wasanAmericanthinker, essayist, , -AmericanWarintheessayCivilDisobedience (1849).
Althoughhisactionsattractedonlylocalattentionatthetime, hisessayachievedfameastheclear, , , Jr.
InlateryearshisinterestinTranscendentalismwaned, , Maine, andCapeCoddisplaythemindofakeennaturalist.Afterhisdeathhiscollectedwritingswerepublishedin20volumes, andfurtherwritingshavecontinuedtoappearinprint.
Walden (1854) isbasedonthetwoyears (1845-1847) hespentlivinginacabinbesideWaldenPond, nearConcord, Massachusetts, anddescribeshissimplewayoflife, , naturemystics, andadvocatesofthesimplelife, whileembodyingoneaspectofthetranscendentalistcreed.
InSolitude, ’ (gossip, fights, etc.).Healsoreflectsonhisnewcompanion, anoldsettlerwhoarrivesnearbyandanoldwomanwithgreatmemory (“memoryrunsbackfartherthanmythology”).Thoreaurepeatedlyreflectsonthebenefitsofnatureandofhisdeepcommunionwithitandstatesthattheonly “medicineheneedsisadraughtofmorningair”.
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