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...DAYS OF HENRY THOREAU by Walter Harding. 472 pages. Knopf...
Henry David Thoreau has been buried in Concord, Mass. for a century. The stubborn, contradictory spirit laid to rest there did not loom large over his own times. He was considered an eccentric loafer, a consecrated crank with queer ideas. Since then Thoreau's ideas have had their seasons. In this excellent biography by a Thoreau scholar who has written and edited 18 earlier books on his chosen subject, Walter Harding argues that Thoreau's spirit is more pervasive now than ever before...
Pusey said that Harvard's history is full of "intelligent protesters who acted from conviction." Among others, he cited Presidents Eliot and Conant, Henry David Thoreau, the Roosevelts and John F. Kennedy...
...Thoreau had but this one olive green suit (though surely he should choose some fruit more Acadian to characterize its hue). Receiving the countenance of an understanding faculty, Thoreau took a grim delight in his impunity...
...Lowell. "Was he poor," remarked Lowell in interpreting Thoreau's perverse logic, "money was an unmixed evil." For Lowell, a plea of impoverishment could scarcely prove viable; a faculty hesitant in reproving Henry now proved all the more severe in striking down the persistent and exuberantly dressed James...