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Thoreau Henry David. 1817--62, US writer, noted esp for Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854), an account of his experiment in living in solitude. A powerful social critic, his essay Civil Disobedience (1849) influenced such dissenters as Gandhi How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It was in this intensely-urban, Goddardian setting that Thomas Larter's descendants lived out their lives of Thoreauvian 'quiet desperation'. The Loves' teaching guide to Ecological Crisis: Readings for Survival suggests that students read Thoreau and keep their own Thoreauvian nature journal as an essay source. And his fiction's stark, hard-headed critical truth is the better part of that love; a love in the grandest tradition, at once, of the Jewish sages and of the American solitary--that single, incisive, eloquent "majority of one" and Thoreauvian voice of dissent. |
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