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- Relatively neglected during Thoreau’s lifetime, Walden achieved tremendous popularity in the 20th century. Thoreau’s description of the physical act of living day by day at Walden Pond gave the book authority, while his command of a clear, straightforward, but elegant style helped raise it to the level of a literary classic.
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Apr 23, 2024 · Relatively neglected during Thoreau’s lifetime, Walden achieved tremendous popularity in the 20th century. Thoreau’s description of the physical act of living day by day at Walden Pond gave the book authority, while his command of a clear, straightforward, but elegant style helped raise it to the level of a literary classic.
There has been much speculation as to why Thoreau went to live at the pond in the first place. E. B. White stated on this note, "Henry went forth to battle when he took to the woods, and Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives—the desire to enjoy the world and the urge to set the world straight", while Leo Marx noted that Thoreau's stay at Walden Pond was an ...
- Henry David Thoreau
- United States
- 1854
- Memoir
The American revolution of 1775 had a somehow indirect influence on Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ because the event marked the beginning of the people’s mindset shift from Unitarianism towards individualism – which was one of the core values of transcendentalism.
After a brief dip in popularity in the 1870s and early 1880s, the book began the steady climb that carried it through the 20th century and that shows no signs of slowing.
It was not until the 20th century that Thoreau’s extraordinary impact on American culture would be felt. In the upsurge in counterculture sentiment during the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights era, Walden and “Civil Disobedience” inspired many young Americans to express their disavowal of official U.S. policies and declare ideological ...
Although Henry David Thoreau’s (1817–1862) Walden ranks securely among the handful of best-known American books in the early twenty-first century, this lofty status was not achieved until ...
His ideas in ‘ Walden ’ – which by far is his best legacy – were started in the first place as a personal experimental project as he sought to fix the popular and so-called conventional ways that society forced people to live by.
