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"Henry D. Thoreau" University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers (1970)interview in Writers at Work Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton (1988)

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Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, during the middle of the nineteenth century, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.

Leon Edel

Leon Edel (b. 1907), U.S. biographer, critic. "Henry D. Thoreau," no. 90, University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers (1970).

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