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Works of Henry David Thoreau: Critical Commentary

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Thoreau, Henry David

Thoreau, Henry David
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critical Commentary

As is true of most writers who have offered any sort of controversial
material to the world, Thoreau, along with his most representative writings
Walden and "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," has met with a fluctuating
critical appraisal over the years. In general, however, his own contemporaries
emphasized the doctrine of simplicity and the inherent romanticism in a work
like Walden, ignoring or misunderstanding its deeper philosophy and
symbolism; these same readers likewise dismissed the essay on civil
disobedience as ...

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