Men Say They Know Many Things
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Poet Henry David Thoreau 1817–1862
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
Subjects Arts & Sciences
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Biography
Though not a professional philosopher, Henry David Thoreau is recognized as an important contributor to the American literary and philosophical movement known as New England Transcendentalism. His essays, books, and poems weave together two central themes over the course of his intellectual career: nature and the conduct of life. The continuing importance of these two themes is well illustrated by the fact that the last two . . .
Poems by Henry David Thoreau
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SUBJECT Arts & Sciences
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
Poetic Terms Couplet
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