41. Henry David Thoreau Life Stories, Books, & Links Biographical stories about Thoreau s life and the creation of specific works. Requires free registration to read full articles. http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/henry.david.thoreau.asp

TABLE OF CONTENTS Henry David Thoreau - Life Stories, Books, and Links Biographical Information Stories about Henry David Thoreau Selected works by this author Selected books about / related to this author ... Recommended links BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Henry David Thoreau Category: American Literature Born: July 12, 1817 Concord, Massachusetts, United States Died: May 6, 1862 Concord, Massachusetts, United States Related authors: Iris Murdoch Louisa May Alcott Nathaniel Hawthorne Ralph Waldo Emerson ... list all writers Henry David Thoreau - LIFE STORIES On this day in 1862 Henry David Thoreau died at the age of forty-four, from bronchial and respiratory problems. Thoreau was an integral but prickly member of the Transcendentalist community in Massachusetts as might be expected from the writer of "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude," and as described in Emerson's funeral eulogy. Thoreau, Taxes, Disobedience

42. Thoreau, Henry David Summary | BookRags.com Thoreau, Henry David. Thoreau, Henry David summary with encyclopedia entries, research information, and more. http://www.bookrags.com/eb/thoreau-henry-david-eb/

43. Thoreau, Henry David | House Divided The popular image of Thoreau as cold and negative was created in large part by his friend Emerson, who saw Thoreau as stoic and therefore overemphasized these qualities in both his http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/?q=node/6713

44. Henry David Thoreau - Poems And Biography By AmericanPoems.com Find a short biography and a selection of Thoreau s most famous poems, plus analysis and comments on the poems. http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/thoreau

Poets Members Poem of the Day Top 40 ... Privacy November 4th, 2010 - we have 234 poets , 8,023 poems and 20,724 comments Biography of Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts. He was the son of John and Cynthia Thoreau, and the third of four children. Out of his two sisters and a brother, Helen was the oldest sister, John Thoreau Jr. was Henry's older brother and Sophia was the younger sister. The house they were born in belonged to his maternal grandmother and is located on the outskirts of Concord on Virginia Road. Henry was named after his paternal uncle, David Thoreau, who died just six weeks after Henry was born. However, his legal name is not Henry David Thoreau but rather 'David Henry Thoreau'. It wasn't until after Thoreau had graduated from Harvard College that he unilaterally changed his name from David Henry to 'Henry David' Thoreau. Not out of character, he never bothered to petition the state legislature to have his name legally and officially changed. Henry spent the majority of his time walking in and around the town of Concord, although he did make a few journeys to other places. Occasionally he would be found sauntering and conversing with his mentor and friend

45. Thoreau, Henry David - Definition Of Thoreau, Henry David By The Free Online Dic Thesaurus Legend Synonyms Related Words Antonyms. Noun 1. Henry David Thoreau United States writer and social critic (1817-1862) Thoreau http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Thoreau, Henry David

46. Walden, Or Life In The Woods - THOREAU, Henry David | Between The Covers Rare Bo First edition. Publisher's cloth gilt. Contemporary inscription (Clara Reed, Concord City, 1856), a bit of foxing, and some modest wear to the cloth at the spine ends, a handsome http://www.betweenthecovers.com/btc/item/291857/

Home About Us Site Map Help ... Shopping Cart Images+Detail Item Info THOREAU, Henry David Walden, or Life in the Woods First edition. Publisher's cloth gilt. Contemporary inscription (Clara Reed, Concord City, 1856), a bit of foxing, and some modest wear to the cloth at the spine ends, a handsome and unsophisticated, near fine copy with the cloth and gilt fresh and bright. In a custom quarter-morocco slipcase. 2000 copies were printed July 12, 1854 and the book was published on August 9. This copy has the inserted publisher's advertisements dated April, 1854. Copies exist with ads dated April, May, September and October, 1854, as well as September, 1855. While The Bibliography of American Literature notes that these ads are of "no known bibliographical significance," it is certainly preferable to have those ads that are dated previous to publication. [BTC #291857] More Results Explore BTC highlights along with additional titles in stock related to the item above... THOREAU, Henry David.... Walden; or Life in the Woods THOREAU, Henry David The Maine Woods ... The Tennessean: A Novel,... Book Bargains Our staff cat, Admiral Muffin, has selected thousands of books for special discount from all areas of our stock.

47. Biography Of Henry David Thoreau | List Of Works, Study Guides & Essays | GradeS Biography with study guides and essays on Civil Disobedience and Walden . http://www.gradesaver.com/author/henry-thoreau/

Study Guides and Literature Essays Editing Services ... Authors : Henry David Thoreau Biography of Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Study Guides and Essays by Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience Walden Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts. He would live the majority of his life in that same town and die there in 1862. His father, a pencil manufacturer named John Thoreau, and mother Cynthia Dunbar Thoreau christened him David Henry but always called him Henry. As an adult, Thoreau began to give his name as Henry David but never had it legally changed. The Thoreaus had three other children in addition to Henry - Helen, five years older than Henry, John, Jr., two years older, and Sophia, two years younger. In 1821, the family moved to Boston, where they lived until 1823, when they returned to Concord. Thoreau later recalled a visit the family made to Walden Pond from Boston when he was four years old. When he was sixteen, Thoreau entered Harvard College, his grandfather's alma mater. His schooling was paid for by the money his father made as a pencil manufacturer, combined with contributions from his elder siblings salaries from their teaching jobs. While at college, Thoreau studied Latin and Greek grammar and composition, and took classes in a wide variety of subjects, including mathematics, English, history, philosophy, and four different modern languages. He also made great use of the Harvard library holdings before graduating in 1837.

48. Thoreau, Henry David (1817–1862) Summary | BookRags.com Thoreau, Henry David (1817–1862). Thoreau, Henry David (1817–1862) summary with 5 pages of encyclopedia entries, research information, and more. http://www.bookrags.com/research/thoreau-henry-david-18171862-eoph/

49. Emerson's Thoreau A biographical essay by Emerson about Thoreau, printed in the Atlantic Monthly, 1862. http://eserver.org/thoreau/emerson1.html

Thoreau - Part 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson's Eulogy of May 9th, 1862 Published in the Atlantic Monthly Thoreau Reader: Home Part 2 of Emerson's Thoreau "Emerson, considered the most brilliant thinker of his day, overestimated Thoreau's natural abilities, greatly underestimated Thoreau's accomplishments, and failed to see Thoreau's purpose. Thoreau was not interested in 'engineering for all America' but in re-engineering America itself." Ken Kifer Did this essay help or hurt Thoreau's reputation? - Three Thoreaus Note: While Emerson must have had the best intentions, some of what he wrote is not entirely accurate. In this text, each hypertext annotation number followed by an asterisk (*) indicates an item that could be misleading, with further information in the annotation. It seemed as if the breezes brought him, It seemed as if the sparrows taught him, As if by secret sign he knew Where in far fields the orchis grew. Henry David Thoreau was the last male descendant of a French ancestor who came to this country from the Isle of Guernsey. His character exhibited occasional traits drawn from this blood in singular combination with a very strong Saxon genius.

50. Henry David Thoreau — Infoplease.com Encyclopedia Thoreau, Henry David. Thoreau, Henry David (th r'ō, th u rō') , 1817–62, American author and naturalist, b. Concord, Mass., grad. http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0848570.html

51. Images Of Thoreau Pictures and words describing Thoreau. http://eserver.org/thoreau/images.html

What Did Henry Look Like? Images of Thoreau from words and pictures Thoreau Reader: Home "His face, once seen, could not be forgotten. The features were quite marked: the nose aquiline or very Roman, like one of the portraits of Caesar (more like a beak, as was said); large overhanging brows above the deepest set blue eyes that could be seen, in certain lights, and in others gray, � eyes expressive of all shades of feeling, but never weak or near-sighted; the forehead not unusually broad or high, full of concentrated energy and purpose; the mouth with prominent lips, pursed up with meaning and thought when silent, and giving out when open with the most varied and unusual instructive sayings." This description is from Thoreau's friend Ellery Channing, in Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist The first picture on this page ( larger photo ), and the picture on the Thoreau Reader home page, are two of the three daguerreotypes taken in June, 1856, when Thoreau was 39, after a Walden reader in Michigan had sent money and requested a picture. The beard had been grown the previous winter as a precaution against "throat colds." The image above is courtesy of the Thoreau Society Collections at the Thoreau Institute Another contemporary, Nathaniel Hawthorne, was less kind, although also a friend. After meeting Thoreau in 1842, he wrote: "He is a singular character � a young man with much of wild original nature remaining in him; and so far as he is sophisticated, it is in a way and method of his own. He is ugly as sin, long-nosed, queer-mouthed, and with uncouth and somewhat rustic, although courteous manners, corresponding very well with such an exterior. But his ugliness is of an honest and agreeable fashion, and becomes him much better than beauty."

52. *Thoreau, Henry David « United Architects – Essays home table of content united architects – essays table of content all sites Thoreau, Henry David. American, 1817–1862 Henry David Thoreau, best known to modern readers for http://danassays.wordpress.com/encyclopedia-of-the-essay/thoreau-henry-david/

@import url( http://s1.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/rubric/style.css?m=1274400606g ); *Thoreau, Henry David Henry David Thoreau home table of content united architects – essays table of content all sites Thoreau, Henry David American, 1817–1862 Henry David Thoreau, best known to modern readers for Walden (1854), was better known to his contemporaries as a political activist and naturalist whose essays were often outgrowths of his public lectures. Modern readers have the advantage of access to his journals, which also shed light on his development as an essayist. The journals, in a wooden box made by Thoreau, are stored in the J.Pierpont Morgan Library, and reveal the seeds of all of his published essays. The essay was Thoreau’s primary genre. Even Walden and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) include separately composed essays inserted within the narrative. His posthumously published The Maine Woods (1864) and Cape Cod (1865) are likewise essays stitched together to form book-length studies. His early training as an essayist began at Harvard in the rhetoric classes of Edward Tyrrel Channing. Twentythree essays and the text of six speeches submitted to Channing survive, ranging in subject from the joys of wandering in the woods to an attempt at defining moral excellence, subjects that would continue to interest Thoreau. Three general subjects provide the focus for most of Thoreau’s essays: a scientifically precise examination of nature; the relationship between government and individual citizens; and the joy of traveling, particularly by foot or canoe. There are occasional forays into other areas, such as his appreciative examination of “Thomas Carlyle and His Works” (1847), or his matrimonial advice to his friend H.G.O.Blake in “Love” (1865) and “Chastity and Sensuality” (1865). But nature, individual freedom and responsibility, and the joy of perambulation remain his focal points. In the longer works, Thoreau often addresses all three.

53. No. 339: Thoreau's Pencils An essay on Thoreau s career as a pencil maker as an example of an inventive mind. http://www.uh.edu/admin/engines/epi339.htm

No. 339: THOREAU'S PENCILS by John H. Lienhard Click here for audio of Episode 339. Today, we meet another side of Henry David Thoreau. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. I n 1821, Charles Dunbar discovered graphite in New Hampshire. In those days they called graphite "plumbago." Dunbar set up a pencil factory with his brother-in-law, John Thoreau. When that plumbago ran out, they went to Massachusetts and then Canada. They made a good start, considering the poverty of American graphite. Most of it had a greasy, smeary, quality. English graphite was the best available, but it cost an arm and a leg. John Thoreau's son, Henry David, was raised in the business. He studied at Harvard through the mid-1830's, but he also kept a hand in the business. Pencil leads were made by filling a groove in a piece of wood with a mixture of ground graphite and some kind of binder. Henry David Thoreau worked on the problem of making a better pencil out of inferior graphite. He solved the problem by using clay as the binder. With clay he created a superior, smear-free pencil whose hardness was controllable. He made the Thoreau company into America's leading pencil maker.

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55. Three Thoreaus Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Louis Stevenson, and John Burroughs all wrote about Thoreau. Includes an essay on the relationship between Emerson and Thoreau. http://eserver.org/thoreau/hdtx3.html

Three Thoreaus Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Louis Stevenson John Burroughs Three different views of Thoreau, from well known authors of the 1800's, each connected to the others... Thoreau Reader: Home Thoreau Ralph Waldo Emerson's Eulogy, Atlantic Monthly, August 1862 Emerson was a major influence and mentor for Thoreau; it was Emerson who loaned Henry a pondside property for the two year experiment that resulted in Walden . But as Thoreau grew, Emerson appears not to have appreciated what was happening. He writes, "I cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition." � apparently missing completely the originality and enormity of Thoreau's ambitions. - brief analysis of a complicated relationship - by Amy Belding Brown Emerson's Thoreau in two parts: One Two Henry David Thoreau: His Character and Opinions By Robert Louis Stevenson, Cornhill Magazine , June 1880 Stevenson was a Scottish writer whose best known works are Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde . He has at least two parallels with Thoreau: his first book was about traveling on inland waterways, and he died of tuberculosis at age 44. Stevenson was working with misleading information, including Emerson's

56. Henry David Thoreau Legal Definition Of Henry David Thoreau. Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Henry David Thoreau was a nineteenthcentury philosopher and writer who denounced materialistic modes of living and encouraged people http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Henry David Thoreau

57. Thoreau: Genius Ignored A detailed biography of Thoreau by Lucius Furius. http://eserver.org/thoreau/ignored.html

Thoreau: Genius Ignored A biography with contemporary observations From the fifth chapter of Genius Ignored by Lucius Furius Thoreau Reader: Home I T'S N O W ONDER that Thoreau's Walden is more popular than ever. The condition to which it is the antidote � the delusion that material things can bring one happiness, that labor in and of itself is good, and that Nature can be ignored � has spread from Europe and the United States to the entire world. We'd sensed that something was wrong even before we read this book, but needed Henry to bring it into focus, to strip the detritus from our still superficial lives, revealing bare rock. We may not agree with what he builds on this rock (the possibility of individual perfection) but are grateful for the stripping away. Finding each generation as deluded as those which preceded it, Thoreau continues to " brag as lustily as a chanticleer in the morning ," and continues to try to wake us up. Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on July 12, 1817. He was christened "David Henry", but his parents always called him by his middle name "Henry". He had a sister Helen who was five years older and a brother John two years older. In 1819 another sister, Sophia, was born. The family moved to Boston in 1821, but returned to Concord two years later. Except for his four years at college and a half-year stay on Staten Island, Henry lived in Concord for the rest of his life. As a youth Thoreau spent his spare time exploring Concord's woods, fields, rivers, and ponds. He remembered visiting Walden Pond when he was only four years old (when his family was still living in Boston). He was a good student and his family made a special effort to raise money for his schooling. He was able to attend Harvard and graduated with the Class of 1837. Though he later disparaged the value of his Harvard classes � and all formal education �, he was an avid reader and great user of libraries (including Harvard's) throughout his life.

58. Thoreau, Henry David Henry David Thoreau (18171862) was a complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life, seeing little difference between them. http://www.eoearth.org/article/Thoreau,_Henry_David

59. About Henry David Thoreau Several works of Thoreau and a biography from Encarta. http://www.classicauthors.net/Classics/Thoreau/

NoCC About Henry David Thoreau Works Online A Plea for Captain John Brown Read to the citizens of Concord, Mass., Sunday Evening, October 30, 1859. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Walden ... Walking Timeline born in Concord, Mass., U.S. as David Henry Thoreau became a teacher in Canton, Massachusetts. stayed for a year here he contracted tuberculosis and suffered from recurring bouts throughout his life. graduated from Harvard University. At this point he started going by the name Henry David Thoreau became a teacher at Center School Thoreau began work in his father`s pencil factory. stayed for a year He opened a school with his brother John in Concord and taught there until his brother became fatally ill he was invited to live in the Emerson household, where he served as a handyman and assistant to Emerson Brother John becomes fatally sick Thoreau built himself a small cabin on the shore of Walden Pond A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Civil Disobedience (this bok grew out of an overnight stay in prison as a result of his conscientious refusal to pay a poll tax that supported the Mexican War) Walden died, Concord, from tuberculosis

60. Thoreau's Maine Woods - An Annotated Edition Hypertext of Thoreau s book on three trips he took to Maine. http://eserver.org/thoreau/mewoods.html

The Maine Woods Henry D. Thoreau, 1864 - an annotated edition Thoreau Reader: Home The Maine Woods was written as three essays. If he had lived longer, Thoreau might have revised them into a more cohesive whole, but he never had the time to do this. The book describes trips over an eleven year period, and Thoreau's work on these essays spanned 15 years. Ktaadn: One Two Three Four ... Six Chesuncook: One Two Three Four ... Ten A best smeller... "One of the most coniferous-pungent books in the English language, a book which a century later remains one of the the best written on the woods of Maine." - Mary P. Sherwood "An effective bosky and moosey picture of the deepest wilderness Thoreau was ever to explore. If Cape Cod tastes of salt, The Maine Woods smells of hemlock and balsam." - Walter Harding More on The Maine Woods - b y Daniel S. Malachuk The "Domestic Air" of Wilderness: Thomas P. Lynch "A Sylvan Appearance": Woodplay in The Maine Words - from Randall Conrad What did they think of this in 1864? - two contemporay reviews More on Joe Polis A map by Tom Funk shows Outfit for an Excursion what Henry recommends for you, a companion, and an Indian - part of Thoreau's

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