AMERICAN LITERATURE
ELIZABETHAN ERA
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Question
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At Lake Tahoe.
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At Willow Pond.
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At the Feather River.
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At Walden Pond.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Thoreau stayed for two years at Walden Pond (1845–47). In the summer of 1847 Emerson invited him to stay with his wife and children again, while Emerson himself went to Europe. Thoreau accepted, and in September 1847 he left his cabin forever. Midway in his Walden sojourn Thoreau had spent a night in jail.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1845, 27 year-old Henry David Thoreau built a simple house on the shore of Walden Pond on land owned by his friend and influential writer Ralph Waldo Emerson. He lived here for two years, two months and two days. This pe-riod became transformative for him and, ultimately, a meaningful reflection for us all.
Detailed explanation-3: -On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau decided it was time to be alone. He settled in a forest on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and built himself a tiny cabin.
Detailed explanation-4: -For two years, beginning in 1845, writer and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau lived on the shores of Walden Pond. The purpose was to acquire a better appreciation of nature and find an escape from the surrounding world. He chronicled his experience in the book Walden; Or, Life in the Woods.
Detailed explanation-5: -On September 6, 1847, writer Henry David Thoreau moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts, after living for two years in a shack he built himself on Walden Pond.