Henry David Thoreau - Walden Pond, Concord, MA
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A statue of author, poet, philosopher and amateur scientist Henry David Thoreau is located in Walden Pond State Reservation, Concord, MA.
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 03/23/2016
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A life-size bronze statue of Henry David Thoreau is located in Walden Pond State Reservation near a replica of his cabin where on he lived during is two year experiment in simple living beginning on July 4, 1845. Thoreau is depicted wearing a light jacket and carrying a pack on his left hip supported by a strap hanging on his right shoulder hiking. He is hiking through the woods. His left arm is bent at the elbow and he is looking down on the upraised palm of his left hand.
His experience at Walden Pond was the basis for his most famous work: Walden; or, Life in the Woods. A series of essays in which he delineated his philosophy, illustrates the benefits of a simplified lifestyle, observes and documents the geography and wildlife of Walden Pond, and criticizes conformity in society.
Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817 in Concord, MA to John Thoreau and Cynthia Dunbar. He was the third of four children. He attended Harvard College in Boston between 1833 and 1837 before returning to Concord. Together with is older brother John he open the Concord Academy grammar school n 1838. The school closed after his brother died of tetanus in 1842.
Politically, Thoreau was an abolitionist and outspoken critic of unjust government. His beliefs were published in his famous essay Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) and his poem in May 1849. His philosophy influenced a wide range of leaders from Political leaders and reformers like Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thoreau died on May 6, 1862 at age 44 from the respiratory illness caused by the long term effects of tuberculosis and bronchitis. He is buried Author's Ridge in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, MA.
Wikipedia list the following works by Henry David Thoreau:
Aulus Persius Flaccus (1840)
The Service (1840)
A Walk to Wachusett (1842)
Paradise (to be) Regained (1843)
The Landlord (1843)
Sir Walter Raleigh (1844)
Herald of Freedom (1844)
Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum (1845)
Thomas Carlyle and His Works (1847)
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
Resistance to Civil Government, or Civil Disobedience (1849)
An Excursion to Canada (1853)
Slavery in Massachusetts (1854)
Walden (1854)A Fully Annotated Edition. Jeffrey S. Cramer, ed., Yale University Press, 2004
A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)
Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown (1859)
The Last Days of John Brown (1860)
The Fall of the Leaf
Walking (1861)
Autumnal Tints (1862)
Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree (1862)
Excursions (1863)
Life Without Principle (1863)
Night and Moonlight (1863)
The Highland Light
The Maine Woods (1864)Fully Annotated Edition. Jeffrey S. Cramer, ed., Yale University Press, 2009
Cape Cod (1865)
Letters to Various Persons (1865)
A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers (1866)
Early Spring in Massachusetts (1881)
Summer (1884)
Winter (1888)
Autumn (1892)
Miscellanies (1894)
Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau (1894)
Poems of Nature (1895)
Some Unpublished Letters of Henry D. and Sophia E. Thoreau (1898)
The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau (1905)
Journal of Henry David Thoreau (1906)
The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau edited by Walter Harding and Carl Bode (Washington Square: New York University Press, 1958)
Poets of the English Language (Viking Press, 1950)
I Was Made Erect and Lone
The Bluebird Carries the Sky on His Back (Stanyan, 1970)
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