Word: thoreau
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their names down as they occur to us, it appears that Irving, Poe, Cooper and Whittier are almost the only names of men of the first rank who did not have a college education. Bryant began a college course, but was compelled to discontinue it. Longfellow, Hawthorne, Holmes, Emerson, Thoreau, Willis, Prescott, Bancroft. Motley, the two Danas, were all college...
...scents afar the delights of "Taft's," he almost wonders how he has been persuaded to spend the summer any where but on his native heath - or harbor. The "Hand-book" is an elaborate compilation of good illustrations and useful description, combining timely advertisements with appropriate extracts from Whittier, Thoreau, Howells...
...Moncure D. Conway is engaged on a work embodying recollections of Emerson and his friends at Concord. The volume, which will be entitled "Concordia," and illustrated, relates especially to the time when Thoreau and Hawthorne were living in the village. Mr. Conway will also give the result of his studies of Emerson's works and observations of his influence as a religious teacher on American life and thought...
...Sanborn's "Life of Thoreau" is nearly ready for publication...