Henry David Thoreau's masterworkWaldenis a collection of his reflections on life and society. In 1845, he moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts.
Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He
graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same year he began his lifelong
Journal. Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau became a key
member of the Transcendentalist movement that included Margaret
Fuller and Bronson Alcott. The Transcendentalists' faith in nature
was tested by Thoreau between 1845 and 1847 when he lived for
twenty-six months in a homemade hut at Walden Pond. While living at
Walden, Thoreau worked on the two books published during his
lifetime- Walden (1854) and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack
Rivers (1849). Several of his other works, including The Maine
Woods, Cape Cod, and Excursions, were published posthumously.
Thoreau died in Concord, at the age of forty-four, in 1862.
W.S. Merwin has published many highly regarded books of poems, for
which he has received a number of distinguished awards-the Pulitzer
Prize, Bollingen Award, Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets
and the Governor's Award for Literature of the state of Hawaii
among them. He has translated widely from many languages, and his
versions of classics such as The Poem of the Cid and The Song of
Roland are standards.
William Howarth is Professor Emeritus of English at Princeton
University. His thirteen books on literature and history include
The Book of Concord- Thoreau's Life as a Writer, Walking with
Thoreau, and The John McPhee Reader. As "Dana Hand" he collaborates
with Anne Matthews on fiction and film, and as co-publishers of
Scarlet Oak Press.
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