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Praise for Henry David Thoreau:
“Unique, original, comical, and highfalutin.”—The Eastern Argus, 1849
“Witty, sarcastic, and amusing.”—The Worcester Palladium, 1849
“Intellectual entertainment that should not be neglected.”
“Witty, sarcastic, and amusing.”—The Worcester Palladium, 1849
“Intellectual entertainment that should not be neglected.”
—The Worcester Spy, 1849
“[Thoreau] was literally the most childlike, unconscious, and unblushing egotist it has ever been my fortune to encounter.”—HENRY JAMES, Sr.
“Thoreau defined his own position to the world not only with unflinching honesty, but with a glow of rapture at his heart. He seems to hug his own happiness.”—VIRGINIA WOOLF
“Thoreau’s assault on the Concord society of the mid-nineteenth century has the quality of a modern western: he rides into the subject at top speed, shooting in all directions...and when the shooting dies down and the air clears, one is impressed chiefly by the courage of the rider and by how splendid it was that somebody should have ridden in there and raised all that ruckus.”—E.B. WHITE
“If Henry Thoreau was a thorn-bush, he was the kind that bears the fragrant flowers.”—VAN WYCK BROOKS
