Definition of Henry David Thoreau

1. Noun. United States writer and social critic (1817-1862).

Exact synonyms: Thoreau
Generic synonyms: Author, Writer
Derivative terms: Thoreauvian

Lexicographical Neighbors of Henry David Thoreau

Henri van de Velde
Henrietta
Henriette
Henriette Rosine Bernard
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen
Henry
Henry's law
Henry-Gauer response
Henry Alfred Kissinger
Henry Beauclerc
Henry Bolingbroke
Henry Cavendish
Henry Clay
Henry Clay Frick
Henry David Thoreau (current term)
Henry Engelhard Steinway
Henry Fielding
Henry Fonda
Henry Ford
Henry Ford II
Henry Graham Greene
Henry Hobson Richardson
Henry Hubert Turner
Henry Hudson
Henry I
Henry II
Henry III
Henry IV
Henry James

Literary usage of Henry David Thoreau

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Literature by Julian Willis Abernethy (1902)
"Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 Henry David Thoreau, " the poet naturalist," ... Henry David Thoreau."

2. American Prose: Selections by George Rice Carpenter (1898)
"... Henry David Thoreau [Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Mass., July 12, 1817, and died there May 6, 1862. His father, a pencil-maker, ..."

3. A History of American Literature by Percy Holmes Boynton (1919)
"CHAPTER XV Henry David Thoreau Henry D. Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1817. His grandfather, John Thoreau, a Frenchman, had crossed to ..."

4. Leading American Essayists by William Morton Payne (1910)
"Henry David Thoreau AMONG the satellites of Emerson in the Concord system, there was one whose orbit was so eccentric that the computation of its elements ..."

5. The Oxford Book of American Essays by Brander Matthews (1914)
"WALKING Henry David Thoreau I WISH to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil,—to ..."

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