Henry Stephens Salt
ASIN: B01GNLNOYS
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 139
Henry Stephens Salt (1851 – 1939) was an English writer and campaigner for social reform and was well known as a literary critic, biographer, classical scholar and naturalist. It was Salt who first introduced Mohandas Gandhi to the influential works of Henry David Thoreau.In 1890, Salt produced an acclaimed biography of philosopher Henry David Thoreau, "Life of Henry David Thoreau" an interests that later led to a friendship with Mahatma Gandhi. Combining a concise narrative of Thoreau's life with a perceptive treatment of his ideas and writings, Salt's work stands as a penetrating study of Thoreau that stresses his distinctive individuality as a great thinker. The writings of Henry David Thoreau, little regarded during his lifetime, have steadily and quietly won their way to high esteem in the minds of an increasingly large number of readers. Today almost every page that Thoreau ever ...