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Biografía de Henry David Thoreau. Escritor y filósofo, el estadounidense Henry David Thoreau nació en Concord (Massachussetts) en 1817 y falleció en la misma ciudad en 1862, a los 44 años de edad por culpa de la tuberculosis. Está considerado como uno de los padres fundadores de la literatura de Estados Unidos y fue un ejemplo de lucha ...
Henry David Thoreau, geboren als David Henry Thoreau (Concord (Massachusetts), 12 juli 1817 – aldaar, 6 mei 1862), was een Amerikaans essayist, leraar, sociaal filosoof, natuuronderzoeker en dichter. Tijdens Thoreaus leven waren zijn geschriften slechts bekend bij een kleine groep mensen.
亨利·戴维·梭罗（Henry David Thoreau，1817年7月12日-1862年5月6日），美国作家、哲学家，超验主义代表人物，也是一位废奴主义及自然主义者，有无政府主义倾向，曾任职土地勘测员。毕业于哈佛大学，曾协助爱默生编辑评论季刊《日晷》。写有许多政论，反对美国与墨西哥的战争，一生支持废奴运动 ...
Henry David Thoreau - Transcendentalism, Walden Pond, Nature: Back in Concord Thoreau rejoined his family’s business, making pencils and grinding graphite. By early 1845 he felt more restless than ever, until he decided to take up an idea of a Harvard classmate who had once built a waterside hut in which one could read and contemplate. In the spring Thoreau picked a spot by Walden Pond, a ...
Extensive site devoted to the writings, philosophy, life of Henry David Thoreau; created by The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, definitive edition of Thoreau's works, directed by Elizabeth Hall Witherell. Contains biography, bibliography, research and manuscript material, links to related sites (on American literature, Transcendentalism, nature writing, natural history, environment).
Legacy of Henry David Thoreau. In terms of material success, Thoreau lived a life of repeated failures. He had to pay for the printing of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; when it sold a mere 220 copies, the publishers dumped the remaining 700 on his doorstep. Walden (the second and last of his books published during his lifetime) fared better but still took five years to sell 2,000 ...
In 2011, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $215,000 grant to help fund the Thoreau Edition’s publication of three volumes of Henry David Thoreau’s correspondence. The Thoreau Edition has received numerous grants from NEH in the past. In 1985, the Library of America, which has also received financial support from NEH, published a one-volume edition of Thoreau’s A Week on ...
