Thoreau is given the assignment of writing an essay on the prompt “Give your idea of the anxieties and delights of a Discoverer of whatever class, Columbus, Herschel, Newton,” due on 6 December (Thoreau’s Harvard Years, part 2:8).
Thoreau is given the assignment of writing an essay on the prompt “Give your idea of the anxieties and delights of a Discoverer of whatever class, Columbus, Herschel, Newton,” due on 6 December (Thoreau’s Harvard Years, part 2:8).
