The Raven | Compare and Contrast
1845: Henry David Thoreau took up residence at Walden Pond outside of Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau’s book about the experience has become a classic of American literature, urging people to look at nature to understand the universe.
Today: Most of what students know about the American philosophical movement known as “Transcendentalism” comes from reading Thoreau’s Walden.
1845: Margaret Fuller published Women in the Nineteenth Century. A former editor of the...
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