![]() ![]() Via the Walden Woods Project, you can download a pdf of the essay as it originally appeared. The text presented here is that of “Walking,” The Atlantic Monthly, vol. ” (Walter Harding, The Days of Henry Thoreau, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1962: 286). In the speech Thoreau explains the difference between real freedom and nature as compared to cultured civil freedom. It was extracted from several of his personal musings about daily excursions he took near his home. But just before his death, he put the two back together again and sold the essay to the Atlantic Monthly where it was published in the issue of June 1862. On April 23, 1851, Henry David Thoreau gave his speech called 'Walking' at the Concord Lyceum. It was to become one of his favorite lectures, one that he repeated many times, working it over and adding to it each time until eventually it became large enough to break into two, the new part entitled “Walking.” Because he knew the market for it would vanish once it reached print, he was careful not to have either part published in his lifetime. ![]() On April 23, 1851, Thoreau “tried out a new lecture, entitled ‘The Wild,’ on the Concord Lyceum and on May 31 repeated it in Worcester. ![]()
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