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Other Essays by Thoreau


A collection of essays by Henry D. Thoreau, including essays about John Brown:

  • A Plea for Captain John Brown

    A Plea for Captain John Brown is an eloquent defense of the radical abolitionist, who with twenty-one other men seized the federal armory at Harper's Ferry. (14 pages)


  • After the Death of John Brown

    Thoreau's Remarks After the Death of John Brown is a speech given by Thoreau on 2 December 1859 at the time of John Brown's execution. (2 pages)


  • Aulus Persius Flaccus

    Aulus Persius Flaccus is a Thoreau's essay about Persius, in full Aulus Persius Flaccus (AD 34-62), a Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin. (4 pages)


  • Dark Ages

    Dark Ages is an essay by Henry D. Thoreau first published in The Dial 1843. (2 pages)


  • Herald of Freedom

    Herald of Freedom is an essay that praise 'Herald of Freedom', the journal of the New England Anti-Slavery Society and its editor, Nathaniel P. Rogers. (6 pages)


  • Night and Moonlight

    Night and Moonlight is an essay concerned with the observations of Thoreau as a naturalist. (5 pages)


  • Paradise (to be) Regained

    Paradise (to be) Regained is an essay that takes the form of a review of John Adolphus Etzlers book The Paradise within the Reach of all Men, without Labor, by Powers of Nature and Machinery. (18 pages)


  • Reform and the Reformers

    Reform and the Reformers is an essay that reflects Thoreau's frustration with the multitude of reformers — prohibitionists, utopian communists, free love advocates, religious revivalists... (9 pages)


  • Sir Walter Raleigh

    Sir Walter Raleigh is an essay in which Thoreau praises Sir Walter Raleigh as a flawed but heroic figure, but who failed to use his heroic character to heroic ends. (25 pages)


  • The Highland Light

    The Highland Light is one of Thoreau's Cape Cod essays. The Highland Light is a lighthouse located in Truro, Massachusetts. (12 pages)


  • The Landlord

    The Landlord is an essay published in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (1843). (5 pages)


  • The Last Days of John Brown

    The Last Days of John Brown is an essay that praised the executed abolitionist militia leader John Brown (written in 1860). (5 pages)


  • The Service

    The Service is an essay partly on the subject of non-resistance and pacifist writers in which Thoreau warns that pacifism can be a temptation to passivity. (8 pages)


  • Thomas Carlyle and His Works

    Thomas Carlyle and His Works is an essay in which Thoreau praises the writings of Thomas Carlyle, a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian. (20 pages)


  • Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum

    Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum is a letter to the editor published in The Liberator in 1845 that praised the abolitionist lecturer Wendell Phillips. (2 pages)