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Thoreau, Henry David

author, poet, was born July 12, 1817, in Concord, Mass. He was all his life a resident of Concord, Mass. A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers, and Walden were the only works by him which were published in his lifetime. Those since issued include, Excursions; Maine Woods; Cape Cod; A Yankee in Canada. Early Spring in Massachusetts; Summer; Autumn; Winter, are selections from Thoreau's Journal, edited by H. G. O. Blake. Still other works are, Miscellanies; Letters to Various Persons; Familiar Letters; and Poems of Nature. He died May 6, 1862, in Concord, Mass.