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1、HenryDavidThoreauLecturer:HuLingliForeignLanguagesDepartmentHenryDavidThoreau(July12,1817 –May6,1862)Americanessayist,poet,naturalist,philosopher,andleadingtranscendentalistThebeautifulWalden(Picture1)ThebeautifulWalden(Picture2)Walden(Picture3)Walden(Picture4)TeachingCon
2、tentsBiographicalIntroductionHisMajorWorksHisInfluenceintheWorldAppreciating“WhereIlived,andWhatILivedfor”fromWaldenComparativeStudies:a.Thoreau&Emersonb.Thoreau&Taoyuanmingc.Thoreau’sIdea&ChineseTraditionalIdeasBiographicalIntroductionBirthplace:BorninConcord,Massachuset
3、tsin1817EducationExperience:studiedatHarvardUniversity(1833and1837).HisrelationshipwithEmerson:Emerson’struestdiscipleandfriends.ResidenceatWaldenPond:in1845,hebegantotakeatwo-year-residenceatWaldenPondThoreauwasaprotesteraswell.Disapprovedofthegovernment’sconductoftheMex
4、icanWarbyrefusingtopayhispolltax(人头税.(wassenttojail1night).In1835,hecontractedTuberculosisandsufferedfromitafterwards.Hediedin1862andwasburiedinSleepyHollowCemetery.Continuing…Thatmanistherichestwhosepleasureisthecheapest.—HenryDavidThoreauThelessonhetaughthimself,andwhic
5、hhetriedtoteachothers,wassummedintheoneword“simplify”(simplifytheoutwardcircumstancesofyourlife,simplifyyourneedsandyourambitions,learntodelightinthesimplepleasureswhichtheworldofnatureaffords.Andunlikemostwhoadvocatesuchattitudes,heputthemintopractice.MajorWorksMostfamou
6、sessay:Walden(1854)18partsEconomyWhereILived,andWhatILivedfor.ReadingSoundsSolitudeVisitors…SpringConclusionCivilDisobedience(1849)Anotherfamousessay:CivilDisobedience(1849)论公民的不服从thisisfromhisstayinginConcordjailforanightbecausehedisapprovedofslaveryandthegovernment’scon
7、ductoftheMexicanWarThroeau’sInfluenceintheWorldThoreau'swritingsinfluencedmanypublicfigures.PoliticalleadersandreformerslikeMahatmaGandhi,PresidentJohnF.Kennedy,civilrightsactivistMartinLutherKing,Jr.RussianauthorLeoTolstoyWilliamButlerYeats,ErnestHemingway,CriticalRespon
8、sesAmericanpoetRobertFrostwroteofThoreau,"Inonebook...hesurpasseseverythingwehavehadinAmerica."P