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...
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - The Case for Nonviolent Resistance and Individual Freedom
Henry David Thoreau, Tim Zengerink
Poets & Their Afflictions – Tuberculosis - Poems by poets all linked by suffering similar ailments
John Keats, Kahlil Gibran, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Friedrich Schiller, Emily Brontë, D H Lawrence, Henry David Thoreau, Stephen Crane, Ivor Gurney, William Ernest Henley, Sidney Lanier, George Orwell, Katherine Mansfield, Anne Brontë
The Top 10 Poets – Harvard University - Five poems each from the best poets to have attended Harvard university
Wallace Stevens, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Countee Cullen, John Gould Fletcher, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Alan Seeger, Phillip Henry Savage, Bliss William Carman
The Top 10 Poets – The American Men - Five poems each from some of the best male poets ever born in the USA
Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Vachel Lindsay, James Weldon Johnson, Stephen Vincent Benet, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville
The Top 10 Poets – Massachussetts - Five poems each from the best poets born in Massachussetts
Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Angelina Weld Grimké, Amy Lowell, Katherine Lee Bates, Helen Hunt Jackson, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Top 10 Poets The - The U S - New England - Five poems each from poets born in the American New England states
Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amy Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, Helen Hunt Jackson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H P Lovecraft
12 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die Philosophy
Niccolo Machiavelli, Tommaso Campanella, Francis Bacon, Thomas More, John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, Kahlil Gibran, Leo Tolstoy, G. K. Chesterton, Henry David Thoreau
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - The Case for Nonviolent Resistance and Individual Freedom - A Modern Translation - Adapted for the Contemporary Reader
Henry David Thoreau
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
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