This five page undergraduate paper examines the essay "Walking" by Henry David Thoreau. The author notes that this essay should be included in any literary study of the American Romantic period because its themes of nature, spirituality, individual potential, self-reliance, human nature, and other elements of Romanticism clearly identify it as a Romantic work. Few writers of any period have had such a great, lasting, and positive influence on American perceptions of the relationship between humanity and nature as did Henry David Thoreau, and his fascinatingly expressive essay “Walking” exemplifies his status as a Romantic era essayist who eloquently expressed the idealistic sentiments of his time.
