Henry David Thoreau
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American essayist, poet, and philosopher
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- Bachelors Languages Harvard University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, 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" , an argument in favor of peaceful disobedience against an unjust state.
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Henry David Thoreau has made the following academic contributions:
- Autumnal Tints
- Wild Apples
- Walden
- The writings of Henry David Thoreau
- The Service
- The Maine Woods
- The Highland Light
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Life Without Principle
- Excursions
- Civil Disobedience
- Cape Cod
- A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
- Autumn: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
- Aulus Persius Flaccus
- A Plea for Captain John Brown