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- English
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The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landscape. In this new biography, based on a reexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on a retracing of his trips, Robert Richardson offers a view of Thoreau's life and achievement in their full nineteenth century context.
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Index
Adams, Henry, 137
Adams, Raymond, 176
Adams, William, 333
Aelian (Claudius Aelianus), 373, 380
Aeschines, 24
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 59, 67–70, 118, 121
Agassiz, Louis: and Darwin, 377, 383; biological typology of, 365–366; career of, 363–368; mentioned 184, 204, 246, 254, 342, 373, 382
Agiocochook. See Washington, Mt.
Aiken, Mr., of Warington, 308
Aitteon, Joe, 300
Alcaeus, 172
Alcott, Amos B.: Doctrine and Discipline of Human Culture, 110; friendship with HDT, 298; and genealogy, 273; and Non-Resistance, 177; and organic farming, 33; Psyche, 19; Record of Conversations, 110; returns to Concord, 357; and teaching, 33; trip to England, 117; on A Week, 196; mentioned, 72, 97, 186, 291, 296, 297, 334, 346–347, 351, 376, 385
Alcott, Louisa M., 298
Alexandria, Va., 36
Alfieri, Conte Vittorio, 351
Algonquin Indians, T’s interest in, 301
Allen, Francis H., 385
Allen, Phineas, 24
Allston, Washington, “The Feast of Belshazzar,” 51
Alphonse, J., 222
Alton, Ill., 176
America (schooner), 253
American Academy of Science, 366
American Agriculturist, The, 131
Anacreon, 47, 172, 185
Apuleius, 79
Aristotle: on animals, 373–374; mentioned, 78, 209, 380
Arnold, Sir Edwin, 337
Arnold, Matthew: on culture, 54; mentioned, 188, 217, 352
Asma’i, al-, Antar, 81
Association for the Advancement of Science, 280, 285
Atlantic Monthly, 357, 360, 388
Audubon,...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Epigraph
- I. 1837 Return to Concord
- II. 1838-1840 The Ethical Imperatives of Transcendentalism
- III. 1841-1843 American Reformation
- IV. 1843-1845 The Road to Walden Pond
- V. 1846-1849 The Profession of Letters
- VI. 1849-1851 The Language of the Leopard: Wildness and Society
- VII. 1851-1852 New Books, New Worlds
- VIII. 1852-1854 Walden, or the Triumph of the Organic
- IX. 1854-1862 The Economy of Nature
- Chronology
- Principal Sources
- Notes
- Index