ABSTRACT
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) is one of the best known American romantic or transcendentalist authors, who is most famous for Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854). In his essay 'The Shipwreck', published the following year, Thoreau reacts to the wreck of the brig St. John, which had sailed from Galway on 7 September, 1849 bound for Boston, but foundered on the rocks in Cohasset Bay, Massachusetts, on 7 October, with over a hundred fatalities.
