Henry Thoreau in Our Time-Lecture

dc.contributor.author	Hyman, Stanley Edgar
dc.date.accessioned	2015-10-08T16:47:00Z
dc.date.available	2015-10-08T16:47:00Z
dc.date.issued	1946-04-12
dc.description.abstract	"Last July we celebrated the centennial of Henry David Thoreau's retirement to Walden Pond. Almost twice as many old ladies as usual made the pilgrimage to Concord, to see the shrine containing his furniture, and to Walden, where they had the privi-lege of adding a rock to the cairn where his hut once stood and opening a box lunch in the picnic ground that stands as his monument. The American Museum of Natural History staged a Walden Pond exhibit. The Saturday Evening Post ran an illustrated article. And to add the final mortuary touch, a professor of English published a slim volume called ''Walden Revisited". All in all, it was a typical American literary centennial. Henry Thoreau would probably not have enjoyed it. ....."	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11209/8956
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Bennington College	en_US
dc.subject	Thoreau, Henry David	en_US
dc.subject	American Thought Lecture Series	en_US
dc.subject	Hyman, Stanley Edgar	en_US
dc.title	Henry Thoreau in Our Time-Lecture	en_US
dc.title	American Thought Lecture Series

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