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Biography: Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817, in Concord Massachusetts. He was one of America’s earliest writers. He was mainly remembered for some of his philosophical and naturalist writings.  Thoreau attended Harvard college and ended up graduating in 1837. Thoreau however suffered from tuberculosis and ended up passing away from the disease in 1862.

Quotes: “ The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation”. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined”. “ Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify”.

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Works

Paradise (to be) Regained (1843)

The Landlord (1843)

Herald of Freedom (1844)

Reform and the Reformers (1846–48)

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

An Excursion to Canada (1853)

Walden (1854)

A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)

Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown (1859)

The Last Days of John Brown (1860)

Walking (1862)

Autumnal Tints (1862)

Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree (1862)

Excursions (1863)

Life Without Principle (1863)

Night and Moonlight (1863)

The Maine Woods (1864)Fully Annotated Edition. Jeffrey S. Cramer, ed., Yale University Press, 2009

Letters to Various Persons (1865)

A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers (1866)

Early Spring in Massachusetts (1881)

Summer (1884)

Winter (1888)

Autumn (1892)

Miscellanies (1894)

Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau (1894)

Poems of Nature (1895)

Some Unpublished Letters of Henry D. and Sophia E. Thoreau (1898)

The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau (1905)

Definition of transcendentalism:

Transcendentalism, is an idealistic philosophical and social movement that developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. Influenced by romanticism, Platonism, and Kantian philosophy, it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were central figures.

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Henry David Thoreau not only wrote Walden; he is also responsible for a small pamphlet titled Civil Disobedience, which recommends that - when a US president is taking a wrong turn - good citizens have a duty to protest.

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Analysis of his poem "Nature"

His poem makes you feel that nothing in the world is more important than being outside in nature. The poem will make you realize how much more relaxing nature can be as opposed to being somewhere else like in the bustling city or somewhere over populated. It is obvious that in this poem, he is very passionate about being next to nature, and that nothing in the world is better to him than to be near nature.

Explain how Thoreau's writing and philosophies about life are similar to those of Chris McCandless and may have inspired his journey.

London, Thoreau, and Tolstoy all wrote books and lived in ways that questioned a complacent and materialistic middle-class existence. Reading these authors intently in college and on his own travels helped form and guide McCandless as he sought to forge an alternative lifestyle to that of his affluent parents.