/lit/ - Literature

>>22419980
He is the writing equivalent of Echoes by Pink Floyd

None because judging a woman based on her taste in books is like a judging a car based on the size of its cupholders

"WOODS could be here" he thought, "I've never walked in this neighborhood before. There could be WOODS anywhere." The cool wind felt good against his bare feet. "I LOVE WALKING" he thought. Silence reverberated his entire cabin, making it sit still even as the creek water circulated through his powerful thick intestines and washed away his (merited) fear of industrialization after dark. "With feet, you can walk anywhere you want" he said to himself, out loud.

>>20848430
It's okay, I feel the same way with Thoreau. But I'm also from New England so his work hits different if you live here. I just took my gf through Concord the other day to show her how beautiful his town is.

>Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
>Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close observation of nature, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and attention to practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.

>>18412713
Tolstoy just read Thoreau who is based. Actually Tolstoy cited Thoreau multiple times.

ITT authors who died virgins

What's wrong with this guy?

>and my cabin

>people are still paying taxes
Kek, nothing will change

>just live in the woods by yourself anon, it will be comfy

Just what the title says, what is transcendentalism?

>>13788539
I was surprised when reading Walden that it wasn't so much about nature as giving a middle finger to wagie caging.