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THOREAU'S RELIGIOSITY ENLIVENED IN LETTERS

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20041106
Author:RICH BARLOW

Henry David Thoreau is like coffee, winter, and cats: You either like him, or you don't.

You may revere him as a literary giant, the first flower child (courtesy of "Walden") and a pivotal political philosopher (thanks to his famous essay, "Civil Disobedience.")

Or, as with others whose work is labeled classic, you may find the sage of Walden inscrutable.

But you probably don't know him as a religious thinker.

"Letters to a Spiritual Seeker" (W. W. Norton), a collection of Thoreau's letters to his friend Harrison Blake, might change that. Bradley P. Dean, an independent scholar from New ...

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