Henricus David Thoreau

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Henricus David Thoreau (12 Iulii 1817—6 Maii 1862) fuit philosophus, naturalista, et auctor Americanus, qui duobus libris innotuit: Walden, seu Vivere in Silvis (Anglice 'Walden, or Life in the Woods') de simplicitate voluntaria in rebus rusticis (quod origo oecologiae habetur), et Inoboedientia Civilis (Anglice 'Civil Disobedience'), de inviolentia rei publicae iniustae reprehendenda, quae in servitute et Bello Mexicano detegit. Inter transcendentalistas numeratur, plerumque a Radulpho Waldo Emerson motus.

Aliqua excerpta ex tertio capite libri Walden vocato 'De legendo'

Hoc fere modo Thoreau scripsit de beneficio litterarum antiquarum legendarum:

Homerum vel Aeschylum Graece scriptum sine periculo intemperantiae luxusque discipulum legere licet, nam is quodam modo heroes imitari et cum eis mane agere habetur. Libri heroici, quamquam in litteris linguae hodiernae impressi sunt, temporibus deterioribus semper mortui sunt; significationem omnium verborum et versuum laboriose petere debemus, coniectantes ex nostra sicut sapientia virtute liberalitate sensum maiorem quam eum quem usus communis permittit. Hodierna imprimatio, vilis et fertilis, plena libris translatis, haud propius ad scriptores antiquos heroicos nos tulit. Hi scriptores esse solitarii semper videntur, et linguae eorum tantae rarae mirabilesque videntur quantae semper videbantur. Diebus iuvenilibus et horis pretiosis dignum est discere pauca saltem verba linguae antiquae, quae ex viis quotidianis sublata sunt, quae consilia et stimuli sunt. Pauca verba Latina quae audivit agricola haud frustra meminit iteratque. Homines nonnumquam putant litteras classicas cessuras esse studiis modernioribus utilioribusque; sed discipulus audax litteris classicis, quacumque lingua et quocumque tempore scriptis, semper studebit.

English language

Textus Anglice scriptus ab auctore ipso

The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that he in some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages. The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have. The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity. They seem as solitary, and the letter in which they are printed as rare and curious, as ever. It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations. It is not in vain that the farmer remembers and repeats the few Latin words which he has heard. Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be.^[1]

Notae

↑ Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience apud Project Gutenberg (Anglice).

Bibliographia

Bode, Carl. 1967. Best of Thoreau's Journals. Southern Illinois University Press.
Botkin, Daniel. No Man's Garden.
Dean, Bradley P. ed. 2004. Letters to a Spiritual Seeker. Novi Eboraci: W. W. Norton & Company.
Furtak, Rick, Jonathan, Ellsworth, et James D. Reid, eds. 2012. Thoreau's Importance for Philosophy. Novi Eboraci: Fordham University Press.
Harding, Walter. 1982. The Days of Henry Thoreau. Princeton University Press.
Hendrick, George. 1956. "The Influence of Thoreau's 'Civil Disobedience' on Gandhi's Satyagraha." The New England Quarterly 29, no. 4 (December):462–71.
Howarth, William. 1982. The Book of Concord: Thoreau's Life as a Writer. Viking Press.
Marble, Annie Russell. (1902) 1969. Thoreau: His Home, Friends and Books. Novi Eboraci: AMS Press.
Myerson, Joel, et al. 1995. The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau. Cantabrigiae: Cambridge University Press.
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Paolucci, Stefano. 2015. "The Foundations of Thoreau's 'Castles in the Air.'" Thoreau Society Bulletin 290 (Summer): 10.
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Petroski, Henry. "H. D. Thoreau, Engineer." American Heritage of Invention and Technology 5 (2): 8–16.
Petrulionis, Sandra Harbert, ed. 2012. Thoreau in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn From Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. ISBN 1-60938-087-8.
Richardson, Robert D. 1986. Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind. Berkeleiae et Angelopoli: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-06346-5.
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Schneider, Richard. 2016. Civilizing Thoreau: Human Ecology and the Emerging Social Sciences in the Major Works. Roffae Novi Eboraci: Camden House. ISBN 978-1-57113-960-3.
Smith, David C. 1997. The Transcendental Saunterer: Thoreau and the Search for Self. Savannah, Georgia: Frederic C. Beil. ISBN 0-913720-74-7.
Sullivan, Mark W. 2010. "Henry David Thoreau in the American Art of the 1950s." The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies, New Series, 18: 68–89.
Sullivan, Mark W. 2015. Picturing Thoreau: Henry David Thoreau in American Visual Culture. Lanhamiae Terrae Mariae: Lexington Books.
Tauber, Alfred I. 2001. Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing. Berkeleiae: University of California. ISBN 0-520-23915-6.
Traub, Courtney. 2015. "'First-Rate Fellows': Excavating Thoreau's Radical Egalitarian Reflections in a Late Draft of 'Allegash'." The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies 23: 74–96.
Walls, Laura Dassow. 1995. Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and 19th Century Science. Madisoniae: University of Wisconsin. ISBN 0-299-14744-4.
Walls, Laura Dassow. 2017. Henry David Thoreau: A Life. Sicagi: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-34469-0.

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Frances Richard, "Thoreau's Wild Fruits: a philosopher among the huckleberries"

[1] Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience apud Project Gutenberg (Anglice).

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