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Discover the Real Henry David Thoreau
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3 жыл бұрынI made this film in the fall of 1997 / spring of 1998. Here is a synopsis:
Few voices in American literature have been as bold and influential as that of Henry David Thoreau. This film traces the author's life from his early days in Concord and Harvard, to his friendship with Emerson and his years at Walden, to his role in the anti-slavery movement. In addition, Thoreau scholars Brad Dean and West Mott discuss his writings, including Walden and "Civil Disobedience." Interweaving dramatic readings and reenactments of Thoreau's life with beautiful nature photography of Walden Pond, this lyrical account allows Thoreau's unique character and writings to come to life.
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@alfredroberthogan 3 жыл бұрын
Andrew D. Kaplan, who earned his UMCP PhD in 2008, made this excellent one-hour documentary ""In Search Of Thoreau" about the noted naturalist and author Henry David Thoreau from Massachusetts about one decade before that. It is now available via KZfaq as of midday today (Wednesday 10 March 2021). I worked supportively with the producer-writer-director on his 3-hour 2020 documentary "In Search Of Walt Whitman" and can attest both are high-quality productions.
@RobertAnderson-bi9xm 3 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed "In Search Of Walt Whitman" :)
@SK-lt1so 2 жыл бұрын
"In Search Of Walt Whitman" is exellent. The page just needs a "Thanks" button, it deserves renumeration.
@samuelmacdonald-walls5628 Жыл бұрын
His Aunt Louise took care of him in the last months of his life, as he was dying of TB, and being a religious woman, she asked if he'd made peace with God, to which Henry said he that didn't think they'd ever quarrelled.
@markgarrett4700 Жыл бұрын
Ppp
@meemo32086 Жыл бұрын
Was everyone a consumptive then?
@Kjt853 10 ай бұрын
@@meemo32086It seems to have “run in his family.” His father and older sister had also died of TB before he himself succumbed to it. The disease was fairly common in the 19th century. A number of people important to Edgar Allan Poe were also victims of consumption, as it was then called.
@ifoundthiscamera 8 ай бұрын
That’s in the video at 42:50
@dennissparks3653 8 ай бұрын
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@williamdelong8265 2 жыл бұрын
Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau are the holy trinity of transcendental writing.
@DawsonSWilliams Жыл бұрын
Truly! I am grateful to discover a kindred spirit. The American tradition has so many impressive thinkers, who are too frequently neglected by students of today.
@williamdelong8265 Жыл бұрын
Well people like the exotic because they are sick of themselves. They will travel to distant mystic destinations for swamis and gurus but ignore their own enlightened people. Vernon Howard is a perfect example. No better mystic although terrifying to those asleep. I pay homage to those whose shoulders we stand on.
@donaldjesus5382 5 ай бұрын
@@williamdelong8265 i love you and i hope you are doing well
@debbiedorr3986 Ай бұрын
and Dickenson
@brentmarshall3269 3 жыл бұрын
"Don't try to be too good, you will miss out a lot in life." Thoreau.
@henriomoeje8741 2 жыл бұрын
"I didn't realize that I and God had ever quarreled." He was an ascetic as much as Anthony of Padua.
@mr.sherlockholmes6130 Жыл бұрын
So sad that they all died from TB Such a Horrible death . Thoreau was a Genius and his legacy will live forever. Thank you for this amazing documentary
@mikejohnson599 2 жыл бұрын
thoreau has guided me for all my life thanks for the impressions
@debbiemetke5938 Жыл бұрын
Me too
@Cheirador123 2 жыл бұрын
The music is beautiful
@susanjane4784 2 жыл бұрын
If only they didn't repeat the same strains over and over.
@josephcampagnolo157 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this documentary! Importantly, Thoreau chose bachelorhood and could have his utter simplicity, but practically those who would support a wife and family have more necessity to be engaged with the complications of society. I never felt HDT was very "preachy" and gained by contemplating his writings, but the objectives of his own life are definitely only for very few.
@yicama2098 3 жыл бұрын
Had his Aunt not paid the taxes and he continued protesting in jail, I feel Thoreau's story would have gotten a bigger telling. Thank you so much for this; filled with all my favorite quotes! :)
@williamdelong8265 2 жыл бұрын
The masses live in quiet desperation.
@Kjt853 10 ай бұрын
I first encountered Thoreau in the summer of 1969 when, as a teenager, I read “Walden.” To use a now old-fashioned expression from those days, it blew my mind and has been part of my life ever since. Thanks for the video, and also for pronouncing his name correctly (THOReau, not ThoREAU).
@Engelhafen 2 жыл бұрын
He was happy on Walden pond till neighbors moved in 🙈
@stephenclayton5129 2 жыл бұрын
I love Thoreau's Walden since the Summer of 1986. It is a part of my BA (Honours) dissertation in 1987 called The Politics of a New World: American Individualist Anarchism in the Nineteenth Century
@bodhimom1 7 ай бұрын
Thank you for this beautiful documentary!
@robertweldon7909 8 ай бұрын
12/6/2023 I have a collection, version of Thoreau's writing. When I discovered the book one day while Christmas shopping, I bought it, being curios. It changed much of how I look at life. I have come to understand much of what he believed because of that day. This video has filled many gaps in what I knew about Thoreau and why he was the way he was. There is much more to him than just a few books. Thanks for your work, and sharing.
@geoffreynhill2833 Жыл бұрын
A treat. We used to have docs of this quality on British TV but they're few & far between now. 🤔 (Green Fie UK)
@cheri238 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you respectfully for this. I have walked Waldon's Pond❤️
@frederickanderson1860 Жыл бұрын
I read that neitzche admired him. Truth is stranger than fiction.
@newmontaigne70 Жыл бұрын
Thoreau founded conservation and confessional literature in America.
@rickkennedy3244 2 жыл бұрын
Good video. I will have my students watch it.
@PopGoesTheology 2 жыл бұрын
The highlights for me were [6:21] At Harvard, he takes courses in Rhetoric and reads Emerson's 'Nature' . [12:05] Gets acquainted with the Transcendentalists, led by Emerson. [14:55] Closes the school. " [28:48]
@seascape35 7 ай бұрын
I "Thoreauly" enjoyed this documentary.
@Cheirador123 2 жыл бұрын
Please, could somebody tell me the name of the classical music in the background?
@markthomas6703 2 жыл бұрын
Dvorak, symphony "From the New World," second movement
@Cheirador123 2 жыл бұрын
@@markthomas6703 thank you so much!!!
@Charles-oo8bq Жыл бұрын
Simplicity is clarity
@litnoregrets7551 2 жыл бұрын
Excellent video. Thank you so much for creating it. Rey enjoyable and engaging.
@stihl_joking570 Жыл бұрын
I’m halfway through Walden life in the woods, I have throughly enjoyed it, I’m a climbing arborist and an avid bow hunter I’m out side 90% of my life and I wouldn’t have it any other way
@marcybrooks3425 6 ай бұрын
One of the best biograhies of Thoreau I've seen.
@skybobo8946 8 ай бұрын
People are just part of nature, not plants, rock, water......., but people, better or worse depends on each individual, he was a spiritual and ethical man , died too soon
@josephclarke6075 2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful .... Anyone know the background music?
@kanny44 2 жыл бұрын
Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess Dvorak: New World theme Mahler: Adagietto Symphony 5, plus others
@ericbenjamin2908 2 жыл бұрын
@@kanny44 Adagietto from L'Arlesienne Suite 1 by Bizet. Can't say I'm a ffan of the music editing...too obtrusive an distracting, fading in and out arbitrarily.
@walden-ux3vl Жыл бұрын
Shazam it
@jefffrederick8648 5 ай бұрын
You do not mention that Thoreau was influenced by the first English translation of the Bhagavad Gita. I believe he read from it daily. Vivekananda said towards the end of the century that, India’s influence is like the dew, it has a great impact on nature but no one notices it coming in or where and when it comes.
@charleskeefer9030 2 жыл бұрын
Loco John and 'lesser thought kite, Jay's the case ever.
@escapefelicity2913 Жыл бұрын
very well done
@davidmichaelhely Жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙏
@gawaineross6119 2 жыл бұрын
The whole time Thoreau lived in his cabin, his mother cooked for him.
@reneerobertie3266 2 жыл бұрын
And, did his laundry.
@autumn5852 2 жыл бұрын
Even more perfect 👌🏽
@DawsonSWilliams Жыл бұрын
The Good Life!
@danielostroff8632 Жыл бұрын
Between Emerson, Whitman and Thoreau, who was the greatest genius? Who had more influence throughout time?
@ABurningCandle 2 жыл бұрын
33:20
@ABurningCandle 2 ай бұрын
15:45
@pinetree909 3 жыл бұрын
"Louitha" May Alcott??
@matter9 2 жыл бұрын
It’s the microphone &/or speakers, listen closely, the sibilants is present.
@janklaas6885 Жыл бұрын
📍30:02
@ABurningCandle 2 жыл бұрын
21:05
@ABurningCandle 2 жыл бұрын
29:18
@Engelhafen 2 жыл бұрын
Ha I’m sure Thoreau wore a hat and closed his,coat when walking in the snow 🙈
@susanjane4784 2 жыл бұрын
He didn't have hip waders, Gortex, or puffy down jackets. ;)
@johnjamison409 3 жыл бұрын
The face looks like Ellen Degeneres
@johnjamison409 2 жыл бұрын
@Imperishable stuff 😆
@hoomanot 2 жыл бұрын
Really does!
@walden-ux3vl Жыл бұрын
Yes!
@bwsmpp 3 жыл бұрын
Nice try
@The_Goat592 Ай бұрын
Please cut out the music…
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