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1、ASimpleStudyonHenryDavidThoreau关于亨利·戴维·梭罗的简单研究学号：20120201246姓名：丁琳系别：12级外语系英语本科5班ASimpleStudyonHenryDavidThoreauAbstractHenryDavidThoreau(1817–1862)wasanAmericanphilosopher,poet,andenvironmentalscientist.HewasastudentofRalphWaldoEmerson.Hewasregardedasanrepresentative
2、oftranscendentalism.HeadvocatepeopletoreturntotheconscienceandtoclosetothenatureOnofhisfamousandimportantbookistheWalden.KeywordsLearned，avoidantpersonality，indifferenttofameandfortune，disappointedinaloveaffair,WaldenHenryDavidThoreauwasbornDavidHenryThoreau in Conco
3、rd,Massachusetts,intothe"modest NewEnglandfamily"ofJohnThoreau(apencilmaker)andCynthiaDunbar.Hispaternalgrandfatherwasbornin Jersey.Hismaternalgrandfather,AsaDunbar,led Harvard's 1766student"ButterRebellion"thefirstrecordedstudentprotestintheColonies.DavidHenrywasnam
4、edafterarecentlydeceasedpaternaluncle,DavidThoreau.Hedidnotbecome"HenryDavid"untilaftercollege,althoughheneverpetitionedtomakealegalnamechange Hehadtwooldersiblings,HelenandJohnJr.,andayoungersister,SophiaThoreau'sbirthplace stillexistsonVirginiaRoadinConcord.Thehous
5、ehasrecentlybeenrestoredbytheThoreauFarmTrust,anonprofitorganization,andisnowopentothepublic.Hestudiedat HarvardCollegebetween1833and1837.Helivedin HollisHallandtookcoursesin rhetoric,classics,philosophy,mathematics,andscience.[citationneeded] HewasamemberoftheInstit
6、uteof1770 (nowthe HastyPuddingClub).AlegendproposesthatThoreaurefusedtopaythefive-dollarfeeforaHarvarddiploma.Infact,themaster'sdegreehedeclinedtopurchasehadnoacademicmerit: HarvardCollegeofferedittograduates"whoprovedtheirphysicalworthbybeingalivethreeyearsaftergrad
7、uating,andtheirsaving,earning,orinheritingqualityorconditionbyhavingFiveDollarstogivethecollege."Hiscommentwas:"Leteverysheepkeepitsownskin",areferencetothetraditionofdiplomasbeingwrittenon sheepskin vellum.hetraditionalprofessionsopentocollegegraduates—law,thechurch
8、,business,medicine—failedtointerestThoreau,25 soin1835hetookaleaveofabsencefromHarvard,duringwhichhetaughtschoolin Canton,Massachus
