Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American essayist, naturalist and poet, born and long resident in Concord, Massachusetts. He is best known for Walden (1854) and for the essay “Civil Disobedience”.

He wrote verse throughout his life, much of it printed in The Dial and in his prose works; it is plain, observant poetry of the seasons and the countryside around Concord.