Tag: “Walden”

  • Arts & Culture

    Thoreau at Walden, and at Houghton

    Harvard Professor Emeritus Lawrence Buell reflects on the lasting importance of Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden” on the 200th anniversary of the author’s birth.

    4–6 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    ‘Walden’ for the 21st century

    In a lecture at the Harvard Divinity School, scholar Lawrence Buell examined the continuing relevance of Thoreau’s “Walden” and the importance of voluntary simplicity.

    3–5 minutes