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Walking is a lecture by Henry David Thoreau first delivered at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. It was written between 1851 and 1860, but parts were extracted from his earlier journals. Thoreau read the piece a total of ten times, more than any other of his lectures. "Walking" was first published as an essay in the Atlantic Monthly after his death in 1862. He considered it one of his seminal works, so much so, that he once wrote of the lecture, "I regard this as a sort of introduction to all that I may write hereafter." Walking is a Transcendental essay in which Thoreau talks about the importance of nature to mankind, and how people cannot survive without nature, physically, mentally, and spiritually, yet we seem to be spending more and more time entrenched by society. For Thoreau walking is a self-reflective spiritual act that occurs only when you are away from society, that allows you to learn about who you are, and find other aspects of yourself that have been chipped away by society. "Walking" is an important cannon in the transcendental movement that would lay the foundation for his best known work, Walden. Along with Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature, and George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature, it has become one of the most important essays in the environmental movement. "Walking" was written between 1851-1860. During this time a large number of important works were published such as, Nathaniel Hawthorne's, The Scarlet Letter in 1850, Emerson's A Representative Man, Herman Melville's Moby Dick in 1851, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852, and Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass in 1855.

Walking is a lecture by Henry David Thoreau first delivered at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. It was written between 1851 and 1860, but parts were extracted from his earlier journals. Thoreau read the piece a total of ten times, more than any other of his lectures. "Walking" was first published as an essay in the Atlantic Monthly after his death in 1862. He considered it one of his seminal works, so much so, that he once wrote of the lecture, "I regard this as a sort of introduction to all that I may write hereafter." Walking is a Transcendental essay in which Thoreau talks about the importance of nature to mankind, and how people cannot survive without nature, physically, mentally, and spiritually, yet we seem to be spending more and more time entrenched by society. For Thoreau walking is a self-reflective spiritual act that occurs only when you are away from society, that allows you to learn about who you are, and find other aspects of yourself that have been chipped away by society. "Walking" is an important cannon in the transcendental movement that would lay the foundation for his best known work, Walden. Along with Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature, and George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature, it has become one of the most important essays in the environmental movement. "Walking" was written between 1851-1860. During this time a large number of important works were published such as, Nathaniel Hawthorne's, The Scarlet Letter in 1850, Emerson's A Representative Man, Herman Melville's Moby Dick in 1851, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852, and Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass in 1855.
  • Formato
    Ebook
  • Estado
    Nuevo
  • Isbn
    9783962170493
  • Peso
    161.2 KB
  • Número de páginas
    22
  • Año de edición
    2017
  • Idioma
    Inglés
  • Formato
    EPUB
  • Protección
    DRM
  • Referencia
    BKW10451
Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

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Quizás entre las profesiones más conocidas de Henry David Thoreau se encuentren: agrimensor, naturalista, jardinero y conferencista, lo que pocos saben es que trabajó varios años en la producción de lápices en la fábrica de su padre. Cuando tuvo oportunidad de elegir su profesión se reconoció como “inspector de ventiscas y diluvios”. Thoreau nació en Concord, Massachusetts un 12 de julio de 1817. Ingresó a la universidad de Harvard en 1833 y egresó cuatro años después. Durante algún tiempo trabajó como profesor y tutor en Concord y en Staten Island. En agosto de 1839 realizó un viaje de una semana por los ríos Concord y Merrimack con su hermano John. El resultado de este viaje se conoció como A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Thoreau empezó a escribirlo durante su estadía en la cabaña de Walden y fue publicado diez años después, en 1849. Desde 1841 a 1843 vivió en la casa del filósofo Ralph Waldo Emerson quien lo introdujo en el pensamiento trascendentalista y lo trató con un espíritu paternal. Tan solo dos años después de trabar relación, Ralph le cedió un terreno cerca de Walden Pond, allí Thoreau construyó una pequeña cabaña que sería puntapié de uno de sus mayores experimentos. En 1849 se publica Desobediencia civil donde sentó las bases teóricas de la resistencia pasiva como método de protesta. Henry David Thoreau falleció el 6 de mayo de 1862 en su ciudad natal.