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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli 2 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 2 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Oldport days, with ten heliotype illustrations from views taken in Newport, R. I., expressly for this work. 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
, Aug. 26, 1894. Thoreau, Henry David Born in Concord, Mass., July 12, 1817. Graduating from Harvard in 1837, he devoted himself to literature, supplying his simple needs by surveying, carpentering, and engineering. He cared for simplicity of life and not at all for society. He and his brother spent a week in a home-made boat, a journey that found record in A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers (1849). He lived for some time in a hut which he had built himself on the edge of Walden pond, and made the experience famous in Walden, or life in the woods (1854). He wrote for The Dial, Democratic Review, Graham's, Putnam's and the Union magazines, the Atlantic monthly, and the N. Y. Tribune. Some of his published works are Excursions in field and Forest (1863); The Mlaine woods (1864); Cape Cod (1865); Letters to various persons (1865); and A Yankee in Canada (1866). Died in Concord, Mass., May 6, 1862. Timrod, Henry Born in Charleston, S. C., Dec. 8, 1829. He attended