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Henry David Thoreau

Born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817

Graduated from Harvard in 1837

friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lived a simple and relatively quiet life

Died 1862

Biography

Emphasizes intuition, human nature, self-reliance, importance of nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson-main contributor

First notable American intellectual movement

Transcendentalism

powerful and influential writer

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Civil Disobedience

Walden

Contributions

Gandhi’s, JFK, and Martin Luther King Jr

Hawthorn, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allen Poe

Importance of individualism

Effects of Contributions

Thoreau, Henry David. Civil Disobedience. N.p.: Dover Publications, 1993. Print.

Thoreau, Henry David. Walden. N.p.: Dover Publications, 1995. Print.

Furtak, Rick Anthony. Henry David Thoreau. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2009 Edition). Edward N. Zalta. June 30, 2005. Web. March 17, 2012.

Henry David Thoreau. Biography.com. Web. March 17, 2012.

Thoreau as a Writer. The Walden Woods Project. Web. March 16, 2012.

"Thoreau, Henry David." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition.

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2012. Web. 22 Mar. 2012

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