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May 22, 2024 · 3. “Low-Anchored Cloud Mist” by Henry David Thoreau “Low-anchored cloud, Newfoundland air, Fountain-head and source of rivers, Dew-cloth, dream-drapery, And napkin spread by fays…” Despite “Low-Anchored Cloud Mist” having a less-than-romantic title, Thoreau decadently praises clouds for filling rivers, fountains, daisied banks ...
May 5, 2024 · Henry David Thoreau, (1817 - 1862) American Author. Walden. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I ...
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May 10, 2024 · Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet, and Transcendentalist. (more) In their religious quest, the Transcendentalists rejected the conventions of 18th-century thought, and what began in a dissatisfaction with Unitarianism developed into a repudiation of the whole established order.
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- Transcendentalism is a 19th-century movement of writers and philosophers in New England who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealist...
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- The 19th-century Transcendentalism movement was inspired by German transcendentalism, Platonism and Neoplatonism, the Indian and Chinese scriptures...
May 5, 2024 · Description: Written by Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or Life in the Woods, is an text that symbolizes the journey of the author himself whilst spending two years isolated in the forest discovering self relience and naturalism. This 1854 text has oftan been referred to as an American classic as most people first discovered or learned about it in ...
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May 21, 2024 · Thoreau's account of his 1839 boat trip is a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing, essays, and lyrical poetry. Thoreau interweaves descriptions of natural phenomena, the rural landscape, and local characters with digressions on literature and philosophy, the Native American and Puritian histories of New England, the Bhagavad Gita, the imperfections of Christianity, and many other subjects ...
May 19, 2024 · Henry David Thoreau > Quotes > Quotable Quote. (?) “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
May 17, 2024 · Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American philosopher, poet, and environmental scientist whose major work, Walden, draws upon each of these identities in meditating on the concrete problems of living in the world as a human being. He sought to revive a conception of philosophy as a way of life, not only a mode of reflective thought and ...
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