ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -He began writing Walden in 1846 as a lecture in response to the questions of townspeople who were curious about what he was doing out at the pond, but his notes soon grew into his second book. Thoreau stayed in the house at Walden Pond for two years, from July 1845 to September 1847.

Detailed explanation-2: -Thoreau’s importance as a philosophical writer was little appreciated during his lifetime, but his two most noted works, Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854) and “Civil Disobedience” (1849), gradually developed a following, and by the latter half of the 20th century, had become classic texts in American thought.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thoreau had his green desk with him at Walden Pond and on it wrote the first draft of Walden, which was published in 1854. While at the Pond, Thoreau also wrote “Civil Disobedience, ” one of the most influential essays in the worldwide democratic tradition.

Detailed explanation-4: -Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American philosopher, poet, environmental scientist, and political activist whose major work, Walden, draws upon each of these various identities in meditating upon the concrete problems of living in the world as a human being.