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A Simple Study on Henry David Thoreau 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 A Simple Study on Henry David Thoreau Abstract Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American philosopher, poet, and environmental scientist. He was a student of Ralph Waldo Emerson. He was regarded as an representative of transcendentalism. He advocate people to return to the conscience and to close to the nature On of his famous and important book is the Walden. Key words Learned，avoidant personality，indifferent to fame and fortune ， disappointed in a love affair ,Walden Henry David Thoreau was born David Henry Thoreau HYPERLINK /wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau \l cite_note-14  ?in?Concord, Massachusetts, into the modest?New England family of John Thoreau (a pencil maker) and Cynthia Dunbar. His paternal grandfather was born in?Jersey. His maternal grandfather, Asa Dunbar, led?Harvards?1766 student Butter Rebellion the first recorded student protest in the Colonies. David Henry was named after a recently deceased paternal uncle, David Thoreau. He did not become Henry David until after college, although he never petitioned to make a legal name change?He had two older siblings, Helen and John Jr., and a younger sister, Sophia Thoreaus birthplace?still exists on Virginia Road in Concord. The house has recently been restored by the Thoreau Farm Trust, a nonprofit organization, and is now open to the public. He studied at?Harvard College between 1833 and 1837. He lived in?Hollis Hall and took courses in?rhetoric, classics, philosophy, mathematics, and science.[citation needed]?He was a member of the Institute of 1770?(now the?Hasty Pudding Club). A legend proposes that Thoreau refused to pay the five-dollar fee for a Harvard diploma. In fact, the masters degree he declined to purchase had no academic merit:?Harvard College offered it to graduates who proved their physical worth by being alive three years after graduating, and their saving, earning, or inheriting quality or cond