Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

A selective bibliography of 21 active links for Henry David Thoreau, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages


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Literary Criticism

Becker, Jack. Reviews Jonathan Bate's The Song of the Earth and Lawrence Buell's Writing for an Endangered World. At Carnegie Council, 2003 (removed)

Bickman, Martin. "Thoreau and the Tradition of the Active Mind." In Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education, at American Transcendentalism Web

Bryson, J. Scott. "Seeing the West Side of Any Mountain: Thoreau and Contemporary Ecological Poetry." Jack Magazine, Issue 5

Buell, Laurence. A review of Buell's The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (Harvard University Press, 1995). Reviewed by Steven Marx

Harding, Walter. "Five Ways of Looking at Walden." At the Walden Institute

Hirshfield, Jane. "Thoreau's hound: On hiddenness." American Poetry Review, May/Jun 2002

Howarth, William. "What Nature Knows: Literature and History In Environmental Studies," excerpts from a lecture, 1/21/97

Maynard, W. Barksdale. "Thoreau's house at Walden." Art Bulletin, June, 1999

Sattelmeyer, Robert. "Introduction." Henry David Thoreau, The Natural History Essays. At The Walden Institute

Schneider, Richard J., ed. A review of Thoreau's Sense of Place: Essays in American Environmental Writing (Univ. of Iowa Press, 2000). Reviewed in College Literature, Spring 2002 by Bennett, Michael

Walls, Laura Dassow. A review of Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1995). Reviewed in Northeastern Naturalist, 2000 by McAninch, Anna

Woodlief, Ann. "Emerson and Thoreau as American Prophets of Eco-wisdom." Paper presented to Virginia Humanities Conference, 1990, at American Transcendentalism Web

Woodlief, Ann. "The Influence of Theories of Rhetoric on Thoreau." Thoreau Journal Quarterly, VII (January 1975), 13-22. At American Transcendentalism Web



Introductory, Web Sites, Lighter Reading

The American Transcendentalism Web covers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Theodore Parker, Amos Bronson Alcott, Jones Very, William Ellery Channing, Christopher Cranch, Orestes Brownson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody; contains articles about the roots of American Transcendentalism and its legacy; reprints important essays; has books reviews, recommended links, and much more

Web site for The Walden Institute, dedicated to conservation, education, and research.

Three exceptional figures: frugality as a moral and political protest against the established order - lifestyles of Epictetus, Henry David Thoreau, and Mahatma Gandhi. UNESCO Courier, Jan, 1998 by Adam Roberts

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment reprints articles from popular and scholarly sources

Biographical introduction to Thoreau from Books and Writers web site maintained by the Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland

Teaching Thoreau from the Heath Anthology web site

For a list of Thoreau's etexts available on the internet, use this link to the On-Line Books Page, a search engine from John Mark Ockerbloom that provides links to full texts on the internet

Selected Bibliography on Henry David Thoreau from Gonzoga Univ. professor Donna Campbell

Extract from The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau, with map showing Thoreau's journey up the Penobscot in 1846

The Thoreau Project at Northern Illinois Univ. provides information the publication of the The Writings of Thoreau and texts of Thoreau's complete works. A rich source of material on Thoreau (removed from www.thoreau.niu.edu/project_main.html)

"A sage for all seasons." John Updike on Walden, in The (UK) Guardian, June 26, 2004 (removed)


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