Walden
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Walden is an 1854 book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration
Original title page of Walden featuring a picture drawn by Thoreau's sister Sophia
Henry David Thoreau
Walden Pond, discussed extensively in chapter The Ponds
Memorial with a replica of Thoreau's cabin near Walden
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century
Walden
…experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau makes precise scientific observations of nature as well as metaphorical and poetic uses of natural phenomena. He…
Emerson c. 1857
Engraved drawing, 1878
Daguerreotype of Lidian Jackson Emerson and her son Edward Waldo Emerson, c. 1850
Emerson in 1859