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The Walter Harding Collection in the Thoreau Society Collections

A Guide to the Collection

Box [x]: Whitman - Z

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
  • Blodgett, Harold "Prof. Blodgett's Address: Thoreau and Whitman" [Concord Journal, 21 July 1955]
  • Buell, Lawrence "Whitman and Thoreau" [Calamus, August 1973]
  • Cameron, Kenneth "Three Ungathered Whitman Manuscripts" [ESQ 1955]
  • Canby, Henry Seidel "Thoreau and Whitman on Democracy" [Saturday Review of Literature, 19 July 1941]
  • French, Roberts W. "What Thoreau Said" [Walt Whitman Review, June 1979]
  • Gilchrist, Anne "Conversation with Walt Whitman" [excerpt from Her Life and Writings (London, 1887)]
  • Harding, Walter "Thoreau and Whitman: A Study of Their Esthetics by Charles R. Metzger" review [New England Quarterly, September 1962]
  • Hollis, C. Carroll "Whitman and William Swinton: A Co-operative Friendship" [American Literature, January 1959]
  • Kasegawa, Koh "Thoreau and Whitman" [Thought Currents in English Literature, 1967: Japanese and English]
  • Loving, Jerome "Genesis of The Good Gray Poet" [Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Summer 1977]
  • Metzger, Charles "Thoreau's and Whitman's Esthetics" [Walt Whitman Review, June 1962]
  • Oehlschlaeger, Fritz "Whitman on Thoreau and Emerson: A Correction and Speculation" [Walt Whitman Review, December 1980]
  • Poniewaz, Jeff "Whitman and Thoreau and the Industrial Revolution" [Mickle Street Review, 1985]
  • Schiller, Andrew "Thoreau and Whitman: The Record of a Pilgrimage" [New England Quarterly, June 1955]
  • Schlesinger, Arthur "Whitman and Thoreau: Democrats" [Christian Science Monitor?]
  • Traubel, Horace With Walt Whitman in Camden [photocopied excerpts]

For other Walt Whitman items,
see Harding box: Thoreau/Writings/John Brown/Ljungquist
 search the
Henley Library catalog

 

Whittier, John Greenleaf
  • Excerpt (photocopy) from: The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier edited by John B. Pickard (Cambridge: The Belknap press of Harvard University Press, 1975)
  • Excerpt (photocopy) from: Pickard, Samuel. The Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier (1894).
Wild, Paul H. "Flower Power: A Student's Guide to Pre-Hippie Transcendentalism" [English Journal, January 1969]

Wilder, Thornton

  • "The American Loneliness" [Atlantic Monthly, August 1952]
  • "Wrestling with Henry David Thoreau" [typescript: Commencement address, Finney Chapel, Oberlin College, 9 June 1952]

Willauer, G.J., Jr. "Ambiguity and the Landscape of Thoreau" [Connecticut College Symposium on Romanticism, April 12-26, 1975]

Williams, Paul O. "The Influence of Thoreau on the American Nature Essay: An Address to the Thoreau Society, 15 July 1978" [typescript, for TSB 148]

Williams, William Carlos

  • Callan, Ron "Thoreau: A Purely Sensuous Heaven" in Callan, Ron. William Carlos Williams and Transcendentalism [New York: St. Mrtin's Press, 1992]

Willis, Lonnie [3 items]

Wilson, Lawrence

  • "Another View of the Pilgrims"  [reprinted from The New England Quarterly, June 1961]
  • "Central Theme of Thoreau's Life Seen Relevant to 20th Century" [University of California Clipsheet, 30 July 1963]
  • "Self-Reliance, 1776-1976" [The University of California at Santa Barbara Alumnus, April 1976]
  • "Thoreau, Citizen of Concord" [ESQ 14]
  • "Thoreau's Medical Vagaries" [reprinted from Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 1960]
  • "The Transcendental View of the West" [reprinted from The Western Humanities Reviews, Spring 1960]

Woolf, Virginia

  • Majumdar, R. "Virginia Woolf and Thoreau" [typescript for TSB 109]

  • Woolf, Virginia. "Thoreau" [in Woolf, Virginia. Books and Portraits (London: Hogarth, 1977)]

 
 Worcester, Massachusetts
  • Frost, Ruth H.
    • "Theo Brown, Friend of Thoreau"  [Nature Outlook, May 1944]
    • "Thoreau's Worcester Friends: II. Harrison G.O. Blake" [Nature Outlook, May 1945]
    • "Thoreau's Worcester Friends: 2. Harrison G.O. Blake" [Nature Outlook, November 1945]
    • "Thoreau's Worcester Friends: III. Thomas Wentworth Higginson: His Worcester Years " [Nature Outlook, May 1947]
    • "Thoreau's Worcester Visits" [Nature Outlook, February 1943]
  • Mechanics Hall, Worcester
    • "Historic Mechanics Hall" [brochure
    • Rosenthal, Steve. "Mechanics Hall" [b&w photograph]
  • Parsons, Eugene O. "Nature Writers of Massachusetts and Worcester" [Nature Outlook, February 1943]
  • Schofield, Edmund. "Henry David Thoreau and His Worcester Friends" [Worcester Telegram, 31 March 1959]

 

 

 
   
 

 

 

Zeitlin, Eugenia. "Henry in the Desert" [typescript for TSB 126]

Ziff, Lazar "Imagining What Exists: Henry David Thoreau and the Language of Literature" and "Concentrated Summer: Thoreau, Nature, History and the Art of Composition" [from Ziff, Lazar. Literary Democracy (NY: Viking)]

Zwinger, Ann.

  • [Untitled] [typescript: Presidential Address, Thoreau Society, 9 July 1983, for TSB 164]
  • "The Quintessential Wanderer" [typescript: Presidential Address, Thoreau Society, 1984, for TSB 169]

 

 


 


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