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Definition of Henry David Thoreau
1. Noun. United States writer and social critic (1817-1862).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Henry David Thoreau
Literary usage of Henry David Thoreau
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1. American Literature by Julian Willis Abernethy (1902)
"Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 Henry David Thoreau, " the poet naturalist," ...
Henry David Thoreau."
2. American Prose: Selections by George Rice Carpenter (1898)
"... Henry David Thoreau [Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Mass., July 12,
1817, and died there May 6, 1862. His father, a pencil-maker, ..."
3. A History of American Literature by Percy Holmes Boynton (1919)
"CHAPTER XV Henry David Thoreau Henry D. Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts,
in 1817. His grandfather, John Thoreau, a Frenchman, had crossed to ..."
4. Leading American Essayists by William Morton Payne (1910)
"Henry David Thoreau AMONG the satellites of Emerson in the Concord system, there
was one whose orbit was so eccentric that the computation of its elements ..."
5. The Oxford Book of American Essays by Brander Matthews (1914)
"WALKING Henry David Thoreau I WISH to speak a word for Nature, for absolute
freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil,—to ..."
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