Thoreau, Henry David

Thoreau, Henry David

(1817-1862) One of the leading American transcendentilists, of the Concord group. He was a thoroughgoing individualist, most famous for the attempts to be self-sufficient that he recounts so brilliantly in his diaries, lectures, essays and expositions, such was the famous “Walden”. — L.E.D.

Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy