Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Thoreau” in chapter 11, page 280 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature:

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is; and Thoreau remarks that there never yet was a definition of it so good but the poet would proceed to disregard it by setting aside all its requisitions. Shelley says that a man cannot say, I will compose ...
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Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
Henry David Thoreau 150 72 0 0 0 user votes
Henry Thoreau 194 0 0 0 0 user votes
Thoreau 142 0 0 0 0 user votes
Henry D. Thoreau 117 0 1 0 0 user votes
H. D. Thoreau 60 0 0 0 0 user votes
Miss Thoreau 34 0 0 0 0 user votes
David Henry Thoreau 6 0 0 0 0 user votes
Helen Thoreau 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
John Thoreau 2 0 0 0 0 user votes

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