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Should there be articles about his sisters? They were active in the abolitionist movement. More information available on Sophia than on Helen. David notMD ( talk) 04:13, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
The works section italicizes every title, even letters to the editor, making it look like Thoreau wrote scores of books, which is not at all true. This material should be grouped into separate lists of 1) the books he published in his life (italicized), 2) the most significant essays and poems he published in his life (in quotation marks), and 3) the books that have been published posthumously, with a note that these have been compiled and edited by scholars (Thoreau did not leave ready-to-go book manuscripts). WindSandAndStars ( talk) 22:47, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
Is it worth a mention that his brother and his sisters also never married? Just wondering. May have had more to do with family history with tuberculosis rather than sexual orientation. David notMD ( talk) 18:17, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
Better organization could make it clearer. It makes little sense to include the current laundry list of "influencees," most with no RS supporting their inclusion.
Let's also break down the "influence," separating Thoreau's contemporaries from later generations. That seems more clear-cut than separating it into transcendentalism, nature writing, and political thought. What do others think? HouseOfChange ( talk) 00:31, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
Its embarrassing that the intro paragraphs includes a witless and ignorant misreading of Thoreaus government is best that governs least... when I see that as "evidence" that he is an anarchist, I know without a doubt that anyone that believes that has NEVER READ A SINGLE BOOK OR ARTICLE BY THOREAU. And they have no right to edit his wiki page.
Thoreau's writing uses a lot of poetical devices like irony and provocation. He isn't writing a dry science book where he creates an equation of "zero government=best government" which is frankly an embarrassing and pathetic interpertation. It is a provocative way of saying that he doesn't believe in an invasive government that tries to run your life, that comes into your home and regulates how much water you use, etc. He believed in individuality and people coming to ethical decisions upon themselves, he was against group think, churches, and so on, telling people in an ideological sense of what to believe. That by no means he believes in a radical and really untenable position of literally no government.
When people mock wikipedia as an unreliable source, THIS is what they are talking about. Whoever keeps editing in he was an anarchist is an ideologically minded fool who is trying to appropriate popular historical figures to be on their side, and they cherry pick quotes that out of context can be intreated as such. That isn't how you read literature nor is it his meaning.
I'm deleting it. If anyone has any questions feel free to ask me. I studied Thoreau at university under one of the internationally leading experts on Thoreau. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.167.118.3 ( talk) 01:52, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
Around the 69-70 footnote in this article a rendering of Emerson is misidentified as Thoreau. 2601:18C:8380:9D60:7049:9F31:DF1A:94EA ( talk) 19:32, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
I think there should be more than one source for the claim that he wrote a homoerotic poem about an 11 year old. I looked the poem up read it. Google searched and it seems the internet is split between this version of the story and he is talking about his younger self. Obviously Google search isn’t researching, but the fact it doesn’t pull up any real evidence suggests there needs to be more research before this is stated as fact. 107.161.47.185 ( talk) 05:29, 26 January 2024 (UTC)