![]() ![]() ![]() Thoreau was baptized in the First Parish - the church in which as an adult he would decline membership - on October 12, 1817. The scene of the first armed resistance of the American Revolution on April 19, 1775, Concord was, in 1817, a vigorous place, home to the courts of Middlesex County, a beehive of artisan activity, trade, and politics as well as a farming community. In 1635 it was the first inland settlement in Massachusetts. One of the major authors of American Transcendentalism, lecturer, naturalist, student of Native American artifacts and life, land surveyor, pencil-maker, active opponent of slavery, social critic, and almost life-long resident of Concord, Massachusetts, Thoreau was born David Henry Thoreau on July 12, 1817, in his grandmother's house on Virginia Road in Concord, which is close to Boston and Cambridge. Thoreau's deliberately lived life and his writings were dual expressions of the same underlying principles and aspirations. Thoreau's "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"Īlthough an author's biography is always to some degree relevant to the study of his or her writings, a remarkable unity existed between Henry David Thoreau's life and his work.Selected Chronology of Thoreau's Writings.Emerson's "The Divinity School Address".Selective Chronology of Emerson's Writings.Forms of Expressing Transcendental Philosophy. ![]()
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