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Definition of Thoreau
1. Noun. United States writer and social critic (1817-1862).
Definition of Thoreau
1. Proper noun. (surname) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thoreau
Literary usage of Thoreau
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theories of Style, with Especial Reference to Prose Composition: Essays edited by Lane Cooper (1907)
"I thought," said Thoreau of his first book, " that it had little of the atmosphere of
... See also the impressions of William Ellery Channing in Thoreau, ..."
2. American Prose (1607-1865) by Walter Cochrane Bronson (1898)
"But wherever Thoreau lived, and whatever was his occupation, ... Thoreau was a
man whose personal views and tenets were carried out to the point of ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1866)
"Thoreau.1 It becomes pure spirits to feed on balmy air in a forest blooming with
trees of ... Thoreau seemed to me living in the hope to gather this plant, ..."
4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1891)
"ARTICLE V.—TEN VOLUMES OF Thoreau. POSTHUMOUS success is an excellent thing in
its way, but it is natural to wish for earlier returns from our investments. ..."
5. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"HENRY D. Thoreau (1817-1862) BY JOHN BURROUGHS JN THE front of the second order
of American authors we must place Henry D. Thoreau. ..."
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