Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. He spent time as a school teacher after attending Harvard College but was dismissed for his refusal to administer corporal punishment. In 1845, wanting to write his first book, he moved to Walden Pond and built his cabin on land owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was during his time at Walden that Thoreau was imprisoned briefly for not paying taxes; this experience became the basis for his well-known essay "Civil Disobedience." He...
Henry David Thoreau: On The Duty of Civil Disobedience - original title: Resistance to Civil Government
Henry David Thoreau
Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The Massachusetts Poets - A celebration of American poetry
Emily Dickinson, Amy Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, Phillip Henry Savage
Rhyme A Dozen A - Trains - 12 Poets 12 Poems 1 Topic
Damon Runyon, Walt Whitman, Alexander Anderson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Thomas, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, John Davidson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy
Born in the USA - The New England Poets - Exploring America in poems
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Horatio Alger Jr., Amy Lowell, Angelina Weld Grimké, Edgar Allan Poe, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Emily Dickinson, Helen Hunt Jackson, Henry David Thoreau, James Monroe Whitfield, James Russell Lowell, John Pierpoint, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Cullen Bryant
Born in the USA - The Massachusetts Poets - Exploring America in poems
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Amy Lowell, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, John Greenleaf Whittier, Katharine Lee Bates, Louise Imogen Guiney, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Phillip Henry Savage, William Cullen Bryant
Forcing Justice - Violence and Nonviolence in Selected Texts by Thoreau and Gandhi
Henry David Thoreau, Mohandas K. Gandhi
Walden (Condensed Classics) - The Landmark Classic of Simple Living--Now in a Special Abridgment
Henry David Thoreau
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