Thoreau

[thō´rō], Henry David. Ms., 1817-1862. A unique figure in literature, whose fame, circumscribed in his lifetime, has steadily widened since his death. He was all his life a resident of Concord, Ma achusetts, devoting himself to the study of nature, and occasionally working at his trade of pencil-making, surveying, or lecturing, for his support. A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers, and Walden were the only works by him which were published in his lifetime. Those since i ued include, Excursions; Maine Woods; Cape Cod; A Yankee in Canada. Early Spring in Ma achusetts; Summer; Autumn; Winter, are selections from Thoreau’s Journal edited by H. G. O. Blake. Still other works are, Miscellanies; Letters to Various Persons; Familiar Letters; Poems of Nature. See North American Review, October, 1865; Fraser’s Magazine, April, 1866; Memoir by Emerson in Thoreau’s Miscellanies; Thoreau: the Poet Naturalist, by W. E. Channing, 1873; Life and Aims of, by Page, 1877; Encyclopædia Britannica, ninth edition; Harvard Register, April, 1881; Life by Sanborn, 1882; Thoreau: a Glimpse, by S. H. Jones, 1890; Life by Salt, 1890; Atlantic Monthly, December, 1896; Foley’s American Authors, 1897. Hou.