| Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)Comprende i nomi: H Thoreau, H.D.THOREAU, H.D. Thoreau, H.D ソロー, Henry Thoreau, Henry Thoreau, H.D.ソロー, H.D. ソロー, THOREAU H.DAVID, THOREA HENRY D. ... (vedi l'elenco completo), Henry D. Thoreau, Henry D. Thoreau, Henry Dvid Thoreau, Henry David Thorea, Henry David Thoeau, David Henry Thoreau, Henry David Thoreau, Thoreau David Henry, David Henry Thoreau, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Devid Thoreau, Henyr David Thoreau, Henry Daivd Thoreau, Henri David Thoreau, Henty David Thoreau, Henry David Thoreau, Herny David Thoreau, Henry Davis Thoreau, Thoreau Henry David, Henery David Thoreau, Henrijs Deivids Toro, Henry David Thorough, ヘンリー ソロー, Mr Henry David Thoreau, ヘンリー・ソロー, Henry David Thoreau Thoreau, ヘンリー・D. ソロー, ヘンリー・デイヴィッド ソロー | 38,310 (45,839) | 435 | 390 |  (3.92) | 186 | 0 | In September 1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne noted this social encounter in his journal: "Mr. Thorow dined with us yesterday. He is a singular character---a young man with much of wild original nature still remaining in him; and so far as he is sophisticated, it is in a way and method of his own. He is as 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. On the whole, I find him a healthy and wholesome man to know." Most responses to Thoreau are as ambiguously respectful as was Hawthorne's. Thoreau was neither an easy person to like nor an easy writer to read. Thoreau described himself as a mystic, a Transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher. He is a writer of essays about nature---not of facts about it but of his ideals and emotions in its presence. His wish to understand nature led him to Walden Pond, where he lived from 1845 to 1847 in a cabin that he built. Though he was an educated man with a Harvard degree, fluent in ancient and modern German, he preferred to study nature by living "a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust." Knowing this, we should beware of misreading the book that best reflected this great experience in Thoreau's life: Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854). It is not a handbook of the simple life. Though there are elements in the book of a "whole-earth catalogue" mentality, to focus on the radical "economic" aspects of Thoreau's work is to miss much in the book. Nor is it an autobiography. The right way to read Walden is as a "transcendental" narrative prose poem, whose hero is a man named Henry, a modern Odysseus in search of a "true America." Thoreau left Walden Pond on September 6, 1846, exactly two years, two months, and two days after he had settled there. As he explained in the pages of Walden: "I left the woods for as good a reason as I went to live there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one." Growth, change, and development were essential to his character. One should not overlook the significance of his selecting July 4 as the day for taking possession of his residence at Walden Pond, a day that celebrates the establishment of a new government whose highest ideal is individual freedom. In terms of Thoreau's redefinition of the nation-idea, "the only true America" is that place where one may grow wild according to one's nature, where one may "enjoy the land, but own it not." Thoreau believed that each person should live according to individual conscience, willing to oppose the majority if necessary. An early proponent of nonviolent resistance, he was jailed briefly for refusing to pay his poll tax to support the Mexican War and the slave system that had promoted that war. His essay "On Civil Disobedience" (1849), which came from this period of passive resistance, was acknowledged by Mahatma Gandhi (who read it in a South African jail) as the basis for his campaign to free India. Martin Luther King, Jr. later attributed to Thoreau and Gandhi the inspiration for his leadership in the civil rights movement in the United States. Thoreau contracted tuberculosis in 1835 and suffered from it sporadically afterwards. His health declined over three years with brief periods of remission, until he eventually became bedridden. Recognizing the terminal nature of his disease, Thoreau spent his last years revising and editing his unpublished works, particularly The Maine Woods and Excursions, and petitioning publishers to print revised editions of A Week and Walden. He died on May 6, 1862 at age 44. (Bowker Author Biography) — biografia da Walden ovvero vita nei boschi … (altro) |
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Henry David Thoreau ha 9 eventi trascorsi. (show) II Revetlla de Sant Jordi — Xerrada sobre Henry David Thoreau Xerrada sobre els llibres de Henry David Thoreau, la seva filosofia i la desobediència civil. La conferència anirà a càrrec d'Alicia García Ruiz, investigadora de Filosofia Contemporània a la Universitat de Barcelona i Professora del Màster de Pensament Contemporani i Tradició Clàssica de la Universitat de Barcelona. Públic al qual s'adreça: adults (richilpez)… (altro) Return to Life  Damion Searls, Ben Lerner BookCourt, Venerdì, Settembre 27, 2013 alle 00am Damion Searls 192 Books, Martedì, Settembre 10, 2013 alle 00am  Required Reading Book Club - discussing Walden Remember those books you were required to read in school? Required Reading Revisited is a chance to take a second (or first) look at some of the books you were made to read in school. Meeting the second Sunday of every month at 2PM, this month’s title is Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Location: Street: 603 N Lamar Blvd City: Austin, Province: Texas Postal Code: 78703-5413 Country: United States (aggiunto da IndieBound)… (altro)Author Event with Dan Tobyne Thoreau's Cape Cod Signing with Author Dan Tobyne Henry David ThoreauDan Tobyne will be personalizing copies of his gorgeous book - the classic Thoreau's Cape Cod illustrated with his own beautiful photographs. This is the book that no Cape house wants to be without. (booksense) Scot Miller Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod.Photographer Scot Miller will be signing copies of his new coffee-table book "Cape Cod Illustrated Edition of the American Classic" by Henry David Thoreau This beautiful book would make a wonderful gift! (booksense)
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| | Premi e riconoscimenti | | | Agenti | | | Breve biografia | Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua. Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close observation of nature, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and attention to practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.
He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.
Thoreau is sometimes referred to as an anarchist. Though "Civil Disobedience" seems to call for improving rather than abolishing government—"I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government"—the direction of this improvement contrarily points toward anarchism: "'That government is best which governs not at all;' and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have."  | |
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