Henry David Thoreau by Laura Dassow Walls. Author Laura Dassow Walls. What did that portend for the contemplative individual and abundant, wild nature that Thoreau celebrated?. Drawing on Thoreau's copious writings, published and unpublished, Walls presents a Thoreau vigorously alive in all his quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the ambitious Harvard College student; the ecstatic visionary who closed Walden with an account of the regenerative power of the Cosmos.
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