Thoreau
Born in 1817, in Concord, Henry David Thoreau became one of the greatest
writers among the American Renaissance. Thoreau based his whole philosophy
on the fact that man needed to get rid of material things in order to be an
individual. An exquisitely educated man, Thoreau went to Harvard, which
placed heavy emphasis on the classics. Thoreau studied a curriculum that
included grammar and composition, mathematics, English, history, and various
philosophies. He also spoke fluently in …
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…have discovered the magic of
Henry David Thoreau’s pen. Just a man from Concord, Massachusetts, he lived
an extraordinary life as a simple man. That, however, was all Thoreau ever
wanted to accomplish, to show people that a person could be an individual,
live simple, and do without material things. With the publication of Walden,
Thoreau showed the world that it was indeed possible; he had lived "to the
beat of his own drummer."
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