Willingness to undertake new ventures; initiative: "Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs" (Henry David Thoreau).
Henry David Thoreau indicates when he calls his generation "a race of tit-men."
Our woods are sylvan, and their inhabitants woodmen and rustics... — Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist.
***Our art critic Holland Cotter looks to Henry David Thoreau for some lessons on how to be constructive while alone
About Walden
In some editions of Walden, there is included an inscription page which precedes the first chapter. On this page, the narrator of Walden declares:
I DO NOT PROPOSE TO WRITE AN ODE TO DEJECTION, BUT TO BRAG AS LUSTILY AS CHANTICLEER IN THE MORNING, STANDING ON HIS ROOST, IF ONLY TO WAKE MY NEIGHBORS UP.
Henry David Thoreau: A Life
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Join Laura Dassow Walls, author of the forthcoming Henry David Thoreau: A Life, for an illustrated presentation on the profound, inspiring complexity of Henry David Thoreau. Drawing on Thoreau’s copious writings, published and unpublished, Walls presents a Thoreau with all his quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the ambitious Harvard College student; and the ecstatic visionary who closed Walden with an account of the regenerative power of the Cosmos.
重新慢慢建立Henry David Thoreau的書單. 此君的日記真功夫
"Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."
--from WALDEN by Henry David Thoreau
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.[1] He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
Works
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- Aulus Persius Flaccus (1840)[88]
- The Service (1840)[89]
- A Walk to Wachusett (1842)[90]
- Paradise (to be) Regained (1843)[91]
- The Landlord (1843)[92]
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1844)
- Herald of Freedom (1844)[93]
- Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum (1845)[94]
- Reform and the Reformers (1846–48)
- Thomas Carlyle and His Works (1847)[95]
- A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)[96]
- Resistance to Civil Government, or Civil Disobedience (1849)[97]
- An Excursion to Canada (1853)[98]
- Slavery in Massachusetts (1854)[99]
- Walden (1854)[100]
- A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)[101]
- Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown (1859)[102]
- The Last Days of John Brown (1860)[103]
- The Fall of the Leaf [104]
- Walking (1861)[105]
- Autumnal Tints (1862)[106]
- Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree (1862)[107]
- Excursions (1863)[108]
- Life Without Principle (1863)[109]
- Night and Moonlight (1863)[110]
- The Highland Light (1864)
- The Maine Woods (1864)[111][112]
- Cape Cod (1865)[113]
- Letters to Various Persons (1865)[114]
- A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers (1866)[115]
- Early Spring in Massachusetts (1881)
- Summer (1884)[116]
- Winter (1888)[117]
- Autumn (1892)[118]
- Miscellanies (1894)[119]
- Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau (1894)[120]
- Poems of Nature (1895)
- Some Unpublished Letters of Henry D. and Sophia E. Thoreau (1898)
- The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau (1905)[121][122]
- Journal of Henry David Thoreau (1906)[123]
- The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau edited by Walter Harding and Carl Bode (Washington Square: New York University Press, 1958)[124]
- Poets of the English Language (Viking Press, 1950)
- I Was Made Erect and Lone [125]
The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau
- Edited by:
- Joel Myerson
- Online Publication Date:
- May 2006
- Print Publication Year:
- 1995
- Frontmatter
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- pp. i-xx
- 1 - Thoreau’s reputation by Walter Harding
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- pp. 1-11
- 2 - Thoreau and Concord by Robert D. Jr. Richardson
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- pp. 12-24
- 3 - Thoreau and Emerson by Robert Sattelmeyer
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- pp. 25-39
- 5 - Thoreau as poet by Elizabeth Hall Witherell
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- pp. 57-70
- 6 - Thoreau and his audience by Steven Fink
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- pp. 71-91
- 7 - Walden by Richard J. Schnelder
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- pp. 92-106
- 8 - Thoreau in his Journal by Leonard N. Neufeldt
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- pp. 107-123
- 9 - The Maine Woods by Joseph J. Moldenhauer
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- pp. 124-141
- 10 - A wild, rank place by Phlllp F. Gura
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- pp. 142-151
- 12 - Thoreau and the natural environment by Lawrence Buell
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- pp. 171-193
- 13 - Thoreau and reform by Len Gougeon
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- pp. 194-214
- Further reading
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- pp. 215-218
'Woodsburner'
By JOHN PIPKIN
Reviewed by BRENDA WINEAPPLE
This novel of a young Thoreau setting fire to 300 acres of Concord forest is in effect a wily prequel to “Walden.”
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