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Henry David Thoreau

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Artikler om Henry David Thoreau fra nytimes.com. Senest opdateret 29. august 2011

  • OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR; Falser Words Were Never Spoken

    Bronxville, N.Y. IN a coffee shop not long ago, I saw a mug with an inscription from Henry David Thoreau: ''Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.'' At least it said the words were Thoreau's. But the attribution seemed a bit suspect. Thoreau, after all, was not known for his liberal use of exclamation points....

  • MUSIC REVIEW; Take a Little Thoreau, Mix With Spunky Jazz

    The idea behind David Karsten Daniels's latest project, the album ''I Mean to Live Here Still'' (Fat Cat), is clear and unsurprising, and in fact a little obvious. Mr. Daniels, a singer-songwriter from Texas who lives in San Francisco, wanted to illuminate some verse and prose written by Henry David Thoreau and went about it by collaborating with a...

  • Depth and Purity: Communing With Thoreau at the Pond

    I ARRIVE at Walden Pond State Reservation here just after sunrise, recalling that a certain local resident named Thoreau once wrote that ''morning brings back the heroic ages.'' Only a few cars are scattered across the lot -- funky foreign rustbuckets adorned with yoga stickers or a little plastic hula girl perched on the dashboard. A thermometer...

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Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau (12. juli 1817 – 6. maj 1862) var amerikansk forfatter, naturelsker, transcendentalist, pacifist, skattenægter, etiker, abolitionist og filosof, fortaler for civil ulydighed som våben.

Han satte pris på simpel levevis i naturen, som beskrives i hans værk Walden - Livet i skovene.

Bibliografi

Originalsprog – oversat til dansk

  • A Walk to Wachusett (1842)
  • A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
  • On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849) – (Civil ulydighed - Tre politiske tekster)
  • Slavery in Massachusetts (1854)
  • Walden (1854) – Livet i skovene
  • A Plea for Captain John Brown (1860)
  • Excursions (1863)
  • Life Without Principle
  • The Maine Woods (1864)
  • Cape Cod (1865)
  • Early Spring in Massachusetts (1881)
  • Summer (1884)
  • Winter (1888)
  • Autumn (1892)
  • Miscellanies (1894)
  • Journal of Henry David Thoreau (1906)
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