Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (12.7., 1817 – 6.5., 1862; rođen kao David Henry Thoreau) bio je američki pisac, prirodoslovac, transcedentalist, borac protiv poreza, kritičar razvoja i filozof najpoznatiji po knjizi Walden, meditacijama na temu jednostavnog života u prirodnom okružju, te eseju, Građanski neposluh, pozivu za otpor građanskoj vlasti kao izraz protivljenju nepravednoj državi.

Thoreauve knjige, članci, eseji, dnevnici i pjesme zajedno tvore 20 tomova. Među njegovim najpoznatijim djelima se navode prirodoslovne knjige i filozofija u kojoj je predvidio metode i dostignuća ekologije i ambijentalne historije, dva izvora današnjeg ambijentalizma.

Thoreau je cijelog života bio abolicionist, koji je u svojim predavanjima napadao Zakono o odbjeglim robovima istovremeno hvaleći djela Wendella Phillipsa i braneći abolicionista Johna Browna. Thoreauova folozofija nenasilnog otpora je utjecala na doktrinu i praksu kasnijih velikih ličnosti kao što su Lav Tolstoj, Mohandas K. Gandhi i Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thoreauova djela 

 The Service (1840)
 A Walk to Wachusett (1842)
 Paradise (to be) Regained (1843)
 The Landlord (1843) 
 Sir Walter Raleigh (1844)
 Herald of Freedom (1844)
 Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum (1845)
 Reform and the Reformers (1846-8)
 Thomas Carlyle and His Works (1847)
 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) 
 Resistance to Civil Government, or Civil Disobedience (1849)
 An Excursion to Canada (1853) 
 Slavery in Massachusetts (1854)
 Walden (1854)
 A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)
 Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown (1859)
 The Last Days of John Brown (1860)
 Walking (1861) 
 Autumnal Tints (1862) 
 Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree (1862) 
 Excursions (1863)
 Life Without Principle (1863)
 Night and Moonlight (1863) 
 The Highland Light (1864) 
 The Maine Woods (1864)  
 Cape Cod (1865)  
 Letters to Various Persons (1865)
 A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers (1866)
 Early Spring in Massachusetts (1881)
 Summer (1884)
 Winter (1888)
 Autumn (1892)
 Misellanies (1894)
 Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau (1894)
 Poems of Nature (1895)
 Some Unpublished Letters of Henry D. and Sophia E. Thoreau (1898)
 The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau (1905)
 Journal of Henry David Thoreau (1906)

Dodatni online tekstovi 
 The Thoreau Reader . The annotated works of Henry David Thoreau.
 Thoreau's Life & Writings , at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods.
 . Text and HTML.
 Works by Henry David Thoreau at Internet Archive. Scanned books.
 Works by Henry David Thoreau at Google Books. Scanned books.
 Thoreau's Journal Drippings; a Monthly Digest of Excerpts from Thoreau's Journal
 Excerpts from Thoreau’s Journals (relating to political philosophy)
 Poems of Thoreau

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Literatura 
 Henry David Thoreau: A Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod (Robert F. Sayre, ed.) (Library of America, 1985) 
 Henry David Thoreau: Collected Essays and Poems (Elizabeth Hall Witherell, ed.) (Library of America, 2001) 
 Henry David Thoreau: The Price of Freedom: Excerpts from Thoreau’s Journals 
 Bode, Carl. Best of Thoreau's Journals. Southern Illinois University Press. 1967.
 Botkin, Daniel. No Man's Garden.
 Dassow Walls, Laura. Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and 19th Century Science. University of Wisconsin Press. 1995. 
 Dean, Bradley P. ed., Letters to a Spiritual Seeker. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004.
 Harding, Walter. The Days of Henry Thoreau. Princeton University Press, 1982.
 Hendrix, George. "The Influence of Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" on Gandhi's Satyagraha". The New England Quarterly. 1956.
 Howarth, William. The Book of Concord: Thoreau's Life as a Writer. Viking Press, 1982.
 Meyerson, Joel et al. The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau. Cambridge University Press. 1995.
 Nash, Roderick. Henry David Thoreau, Philosopher.
 Parrington, Vernon. Main Current in American Thought. V 2 online. 1927.
 Petroski, Henry. H. D. Thoreau, Engineer. American Heritage of Invention and Technology, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 8-16.

Eksterni linkovi 

 This Date From Henry David Thoreau's Journal  
 Who He Was & Why He Matters — by Randall Conrad 
  
 The Birthplace of Thoreau
 The Blog of Henry David Thoreau
 The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods 
 Henry David Thoreau Online The Works and Life of Henry D. Thoreau
 Henry David Thoreau (“The Transcendentalists”) 
 The American Transcendentalist Web
 Thoreau Project at Calliope 
 The Thoreau Society
 The Thoreau Edition
 Concordance to works of Thoreau  at Victorian Literary Studies Archive
 John Updike, “A Sage for All Seasons” — courtesy of the UK Guardian, an edited extract from the introduction to Updike’s new edition of Walden
 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry
 Henry Thoreau: Transcendental Economist from Vernon L. Parrington’s Main Currents in American Thought 
 Stephen Ells’s Thoreau research page
 The European Thoreau web page: multilingual resources for Thoreauvians 
 Thoreau's trails

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