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Thoreau's speech proved persuasive: first the abolitionist movement began to accept Brown as a martyr, and by the time of the American Civil War entire armies of the North were literally singing Brown's praises.
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Thus, by the time Thoreau's lectures were first published under the title " Civil Disobedience ," in 1866, four years after his death, the term had achieved fairly widespread usage.
Thoreau's first essay published there was Aulus Persius Flaccus, an essay on the playwright of the same name, published in The Dial in July 1840.
Thoreau's friend Ellery Channing published his first biography, Thoreau the Poet-Naturalist, in 1873, and Channing and another friend Harrison Blake edited some poems, essays, and journal entries for posthumous publication in the 1890s.
Thoreau's journals, which he often mined for his published works but which remained largely unpublished at his death, were first published in 1906 and helped to build his modern reputation.
From 1898 until 1907, Bussum housed the first Dutch socialist colony after the example of Thoreau's Walden, set up by the writer and psychiatrist Frederik van Eeden.
It is the only library in the world with the first two quartos of Hamlet ; it holds the manuscript of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, the first seven drafts of Henry David Thoreau's Walden, John James Audubon's Birds of America, a collection of manuscripts and first editions of the works of Charles Bukowski, and many other great treasures.
In 1907, about one year into his first satyagraha campaign in South Africa, he wrote a translated synopsis of Thoreau's argument for Indian Opinion, credited Thoreau's essay with being " the chief cause of the abolition of slavery in America ", and wrote that " Both his example and writings are at present exactly applicable to the Indians in the Transvaal.
Major works from those years include Ralph Waldo Emerson's Representative Men ( 1850, though most of Emerson's best-known texts were published earlier ), Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter ( 1850 ) and The House of the Seven Gables ( 1851 ), Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ( 1851 ), Henry David Thoreau's Walden ( 1854 ), and Walt Whitman's first edition of Leaves of Grass ( 1855 ).
Thoreau's and movement
Why I actually took the name of my movement from Thoreau's essay ' On the Duty of Civil Disobedience ,' written about 80 years ago.
The 4th movement of the Concord Sonata for piano ( with a part for flute, Thoreau's instrument ) is a character picture and he also set Thoreau's words.
Thoreau's ideas have impacted and resonated with various strains in the anarchist movement, with Emma Goldman referring to him as " the greatest American anarchist.
Thoreau's and Brown
Thoreau's essay espoused John Brown and his fight for abolition.
Thoreau's and by
His thought is an early influence on green anarchism but with an emphasis on the individual experience of the natural world influencing later naturist currents, simple living as a rejection of a materialist lifestyle and self-sufficiency were Thoreau's goals, and the whole project was inspired by transcendentalist philosophy.
Original title page of Walden featuring a picture drawn by Thoreau's sister Sophia
Aware he was dying, Thoreau's last words were " Now comes good sailing ", followed by two lone words, " moose " and " Indian ".
Political leaders and reformers like Mahatma Gandhi, President John F. Kennedy, civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and Russian author Leo Tolstoy all spoke of being strongly affected by Thoreau's work, particularly Civil Disobedience, as did " right-wing theorist Frank Chodorov devoted an entire issue of his monthly, Analysis, to an appreciation of Thoreau.
Although his writings would later receive widespread acclaim, Thoreau's ideas were not universally applauded by some of his contemporaries in literary circles.
Published in 1854, it details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts.
Simple living and self-sufficiency were Thoreau's other goals, and the whole project was inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, a central theme of the American Romantic Period.
Thoreau's intention during his time at Walden Pond was " to conduct an experiment: Could he survive, possibly even thrive, by stripping away all superfluous luxuries, living a plain, simple life in radically reduced conditions?
The site of Thoreau's cabin marked by a cairn in 1908.
That the book is not simply a criticism of society, but also an attempt to engage creatively with the better aspects of contemporary culture, is suggested both by Thoreau's proximity to Concord society and by his admiration for classical literature.
Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi ( a. k. a. Mahatma Gandhi ) was impressed by Thoreau's arguments.
* The Theory, Practice, and Influence of Thoreau's Civil Disobedience by Lawrence Rosenwald
* The Theory, Practice & Influence of Thoreau's Civil Disobedience by Lawrence Rosenwald
Thoreau's and American
American psychologist B. F. Skinner wrote that he carried a copy of Thoreau's Walden with him in his youth.
Desert Solitaire is regarded as one of the finest nature narratives in American literature, and has been compared to Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Thoreau's Walden.
Thoreau's and Civil
Thoreau's 1848 essay Civil Disobedience, originally titled " Resistance to Civil Government ", has had a wide influence on many later practitioners of civil disobedience.
Henry David Thoreau's classic essay Civil Disobedience ( Thoreau ) | Civil Disobedience inspired Martin Luther King and many other activists.
Thoreau's 1849 essay " Resistance to Civil Government " was eventually renamed " Essay on Civil Disobedience.
" Richard Drinnon partly blames Thoreau for the ambiguity, noting that Thoreau's " sly satire, his liking for wide margins for his writing, and his fondness for paradox provided ammunition for widely divergent interpretations of ' Civil Disobedience.
" The Influence of Thoreau's ' Civil Disobedience ' on Gandhi's Satyagraha.
The majority opinion was that the law was overinclusive, and would have prevented the publication of such works as The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Thoreau's Civil Disobedience, and even The Confessions of Saint Augustine.
Prior to the 2002 SGA election, the phrase " Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine " from Henry David Thoreau's essay " Civil Disobedience " was chalked on the outer wall of the Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library.
In 1866, four years after Thoreau's death, the essay was reprinted in a collection of Thoreau's work ( A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers ) under the title Civil Disobedience.
Thoreau's and War
The tax collector who arrested him rose to higher political office, and Thoreau's essay was not published until after the end of the Mexican War.
Thoreau's and North
He established a commune named Walden, taking inspiration from Thoreau's book Walden, in Bussum, North Holland, where the residents tried to produce as much of their needs as they could themselves and to share everything in common, and where he took up a standard of living far below what he was used to.
Thoreau's and were
In theory and in practice, Thoreau's Walden experiment and the Walden Two experiment were far different from one another.
The latter title distinguished Thoreau's program from that of the " non-resistants " ( anarcho-pacifists ) who were expressing similar views.
In the U. S. A., Henry David Thoreau's works and Susan Fenimore Cooper's Rural Hours ( 1850 ) were canonical influences on Victorian nature writing.
Thoreau's and .
He even makes the city look like one of Thoreau's hangouts.
At Emerson's request, Alcott helped arrange Thoreau's funeral, which was held at First Parish Sanctuary in Concord, despite Thoreau having disavowed membership in the church when he was in his early twenties.
Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes.
Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thoreau's birthplace still exists on Virginia Road in Concord and is currently the focus of preservation efforts.
However, Louisa May Alcott mentioned to Ralph Waldo Emerson that Thoreau's facial hair " will most assuredly deflect amorous advances and preserve the man's virtue in perpetuity.
He also kept a series of notebooks, and these observations became the source for Thoreau's late natural history writings, such as Autumnal Tints, The Succession of Trees, and Wild Apples, an essay lamenting the destruction of indigenous and wild apple species.
Until the 1970s, literary critics dismissed Thoreau's late pursuits as amateur science and philosophy.
Bronson Alcott planned the service and read selections from Thoreau's works, and Channing presented a hymn.
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