Henry David Thoreau’ Review: The Jester at Walden Pond

Henry David Thoreau died on May 6, 1862, in Concord, Mass., surrounded by books and flowers. At the funeral, his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered a eulogy that emphasized Thoreau’s greatness, his preternatural purity (He “never had a vice in his life”) and his practical skills as a…

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