Edward Waldo Emerson, interview notes with Benjamin Lee, series 1, box 1, folder 10, and with Benjamin Tolman, box 1, folder 18, CFPL; John S. Keyes quoted in Thoreau as Seen, 206. 43. ... 9, and Richard M. Lebeaux, ...
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Little Johnny Riordan, who faces cold and routs it like a Persian army, who, yet innocent, carries in his knees the strength of a thousand Indras. ... While the charitable waddle about cased in furs, he, lively as a cricket, ...
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Walden's Shore explores Thoreau's understanding of the "living rock" on which life's complexity depends--not as metaphor but as physical science.
In Walden, he writes that "God himself culminates in the present moment," and that in nature we encounter, "the workman whose work we are." But what were the sources of his religious convictions about the meaning of nature in human life?
The selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their entirety are Walden, his indisputable masterpiece, and his two great arguments for nonconformity, Civil Disobedience and Life Without Principle.
America’s greatest nature writer and a political thinker of international renown, Henry David Thoreau crafted essays that reflect his speculative and probing cast of mind. In his poems, he gave...
This collection provides a rich understanding of Thoreau and nineteenth-century American literature, political activism, and environmentalist thinking that will be a vital resource for students, teachers, scholars, and general readers.