... supportive home life for their children. Soon after Henry's birth, they moved to nearby Chelmsford, and then to Boston. Economic misfortunes continued to plague the Thoreau's until the family moved back to Concord in 1823. "There Henry's father began a modestly successful pencil making business, and by 1833 the family ... , chiefly to have access to their library) and to take part in the debates and colloquiums (Concise 350). In the spring of 1836, Thoreau dropped out of Harvard due to the development of tuberculosis that was to plague his life (Concise 350). Henry later returned to Harv...

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... Edgar Allen Poe, Washington Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, influence on literature is apparent. "Thanatopsis-, "Masque of the Red Death-, "The Devil and Tom Walker-, "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls-, "A Psalm of Life-, "Self-Reliance-, "Civil Disobedience- and Walden demonstrate this influence. Both Romanticism and Transcendentalism involve idealism; worth of the individual ... flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."" ("Self-Reliance-). Emerson related misfits with pure and wise spirits, perhaps they are just misunderstood'. Henry Wa...

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... for his attacks on the social institutions he considered immoral and for his faith in the religious significance of nature. The essay "Civil Disobedience" is his most famous social protest. Walden, a study of Thoreau's experiment in living close to nature, is chiefly responsible for his literary reputation. Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on July 12, 1817. Unlike most leading writers of his time ... that people must be free to act according to their own idea of right and wrong, without government interference. In "Civil Disobedience" (1849), he said that people should refuse...

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