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A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful,Mwhile his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with,Mhe who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all? - Henry David Thoreau Attribution: Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. “Walking” (1862), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 5, p. 240, Houghton Mifflin (1906).

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Henry David Thoreau

Titles by Henry David Thoreau:

• Civil Disobedience
• Transcendentalism
• Walden

Salem on History:

• Henry David Thoreau

eNotes:

• Henry David Thoreau (The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail)
• Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts (Transcendentalism)
• Henry David Thoreau (Walden)

Encyclopedia:

• Thoreau, Henry David (West's Encyclopedia of American Law)
• Thoreau, Henry David (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Thoreau, Henry David (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Thoreau, Henry David (The Oxford Companion to American Military History)

Primary Sources:

• John Brown and Henry David Thoreau (Terrorism Reference)

Salem on Literature:

• The Essays of Henry David Thoreau (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
• Henry David Thoreau (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Henry David Thoreau (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
• Henry David Thoreau (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Henry David Thoreau (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Henry David Thoreau (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)
• Henry David Thoreau (Ethics (Ready Reference series))

Literary Criticism:

• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Henry David Thoreau (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Walden; or, Life in the Woods Henry David Thoreau (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Thoreau, Henry David (Poetry Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Henry David Thoreau is born
• Henry David Thoreau establishes residence at a cabin on Walden Pond, outside Concord, Massachusetts
• Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden; or, Life in the Woods
• Henry David Thoreau dies