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January 6, 2022
Magazine
Sarah Blackwood
Emerson and Thoreau’s Fanatical Freedom
Why do the Transcendentalists still have an outsize influence on American culture?
October 21, 2015
Donovan Hohn
Everybody Hates Henry
Literary saint or arrogant fraud—why do we need Thoreau to be one or the other?
February 23, 2014
Hillary Kelly
Don't Call Henry David Thoreau a Hermit
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