Thoreau's "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers".Selected Chronology of Thoreau's Writings.Emerson's "The Divinity School Address".Selective Chronology of Emerson's Writings.Forms of Expressing Transcendental Philosophy.|a Reprint of the Penguin American Library edition published in 1983. |a Walden and, Civil disobedience / |c by Henry David Thoreau with an introduction by Michael Meyer. George Eliot's review of Walden singles out qualities that has attracted readers for generations, namely "a deep poetic sensibility," as well as Thoreau's own "refined hardy mind." In a world obsessed with technology and luxury, Walden seems more relevant today than ever.Īfter being imprisoned for refusing to pay Concord's poll tax, Thoreau recounted his experience in an 1848 lecture "The Rights and Duties of the Individual in Relation to Government." The speech, hardly noticed in Thoreau's lifetime, was later published as "Civil Disobedience." Today it is widely considered one of the most important essays concerning the incumbent duties of American citizens.
He described his experiences in Walden, using vivid, forceful prose that transforms his reflections on nature into richly evocative metaphors to live by.
For the next two years he lived there as simply as possible, seeking "the essential facts of life" and learning to eliminate the unnecessary details-material and spiritual-that intrude upon our happiness. Henry David Thoreau built his small cabin on the shore of Walden Pond in 1845.
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