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Henry D. Thoreau Biography. Henry David Thoreau (baptized David Henry Thoreau) was born on July 12, 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts, to John Thoreau and Cynthia Dunbar. He was the third of four children. He was named after a recently deceased paternal uncle, David Thoreau, but since everyone always called him Henry, he eventually changed his ...
Henry David Thoreau - Transcendentalism, Nature, Activism: In terms of material success, Thoreau lived a life of repeated failures. He had to pay for the printing of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; when it sold a mere 220 copies, the publishers dumped the remaining 700 on his doorstep. Walden (the second and last of his books published during his lifetime) fared better but still ...
Thoreau’s Life. Henry David Thoreau lived in the mid-nineteenth century during turbulent times in America. He said he was born on July 12, 1817, “in the nick of time” in Concord, Massachusetts, during the flowering of America when the transcendental movement was taking root and when the anti-slavery movement was rapidly gaining momentum.
Henry David Thoreau, tên khai sinh là David Henry Thoreau (12 tháng 7 năm 1817 – 6 tháng 5 năm 1862), là nhà văn, nhà thơ, nhà tự nhiên học, nhà sử học, nhà triết học, nhà địa hình học mẫu mực người Mỹ. [3] Ông là một trong những người đi tiên phong theo thuyết Tiên nghiệm và là ...
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) [1] was an American author, naturalist and philosopher. His friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson had a great impact on him, and supported him in many ways. Emerson provided a place for Thoreau to live at Walden Pond, which inspired his book, Walden. [2] He is best known for his book, Walden, a ...
Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817, in his grandmother’s farmhouse on the outskirts of Concord, Massachusetts, a small village of approximately 2,000 people. His father John, described as “amiable and loveable,” worked for some time as a shopkeeper and teacher before eventually finding success as a pencil maker.
Jul 7, 2017 · Two hundred years after his birth, and two generations after the last full-scale biography, Walls restores Henry David Thoreau to us in all his profound, inspiring complexity. Walls traces the full arc of Thoreau’s life, from his early days in the intellectual hothouse of Concord, when the American experiment still felt fresh and precarious ...
