Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a Harvard-educated pencil-maker, surveyor, naturalist, and writer who spent his entire life in and around Concord, Massachusetts. A protege of Ralph Waldo Emerson and a central figure of the Transcendentalist movement, he turned the act of paying attention into a literary art form and the act of refusal into a political philosophy. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Walden.