Jeffrey S. Cramer (1955-     )

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• I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (Yale University Press) (forthcoming: September 2007)
   

• Foreword: A Journey into the Transcendentalists’ New England by R. Todd Felton (Roaring Forties Press, 2006)
   

• Walden Henry D. Thoreau; Edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer; Introduction by Denis Donohue (Yale University Press) (2006)

“Jeffrey Cramer’s Walden is the most accurate and readable text of Thoreau’s masterpiece.  Cramer’s version now replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great American book.” — Joel Porte, author of Consciousness and Culture: Emerson and Thoreau Reviewed 

"Thoreau’s masterpiece — here freshly refurbished by Jeffrey S. Cramer — speaks to our material and spiritual condition as powerfully as on the day it first appeared.  Now, more than ever, Walden is our indispensable American book." — Alan D. Hodder, Professor of Comparative Religion, Hampshire College, and author of Thoreau's Ecstatic Witness

• Compiler: “On Migration and the Migratory Instinct from the Journals of Henry D. Thoreau” (Ecotone, issue 2) pp. 179-181
   

• “Conserving Nature, Preserving Ourselves” (Philanthropy World, Volume 9, Issue 5) p. 66
   

• Thoreau’s Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition (Yale University Press)

"There is nothing like this — within the covers of one book — in the world of Thoreau scholarship. The book is fascinating . . . accurate and minute in its scholarship. It amounts to a Thoreau encyclopedia in one volume!" — Joel Porte, author of Consciousness and Culture: Emerson and Thoreau Reviewed

"Cramer’s notes are immensely useful. His edition of Walden will be a boon to ordinary readers and scholars alike." — Denis Donoghue, author of Speaking of Beauty

“A handsome ‘all-things-Walden’ edition, copiously annotated by Jeffrey S. Cramer, curator of collections at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods.” — Michael Kenney, Boston Sunday Globe

“Cramer’s side notes are like short, illuminating conversations.” — Jacqueline Blais, USA Today

“Readers will be intrigued by Cramer’s wide-ranging commentary and new bibliographical and historical background including stunning passages from Thoreau’s Journal and letters.” — Richard Higgins, UU World

“Cramer’s [book] not only cleans up errors that have crept into previous texts but also adds biographical and historical context to Thoreau’s life.” — Julia Keller, Greensboro News & Record

“For those who aspire to a deeper understanding of the man and his milieu, the annotated Walden, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer, is the edition to choose.” — Allan D. Smith, Trenton Times

“[An] authoritative text with generous annotations.” — Forecast

“A definitive text. . . . With Cramer’s notes, readers and re-readers will find the text both deeper and more accessible.” — Julie Dunlap, Audubon Naturalist News

"The most authoritative edition of Walden yet to appear, an edition supported by the most extensive and useful annotations ever offered. Presenting the text and annotations in a side-by-side format, this is the best edition of the book for scholars because it not only includes annotations of just about everything in the text but also presents the most perfect text of Walden. Essential. All collections; all levels.” — Choice

"Meticulous and often fascinating annotations. . . . It is the paradox of Walden, and of all great literature that seeks to represent the real world, that by rooting his narrative so firmly in actualities of his own time and place, Thoreau created a work that remains vitally relevant to our own.” — Robert Finch, Los Angeles Times

"Cramer [identifies] . . . the terms, books, people, and ideas as they were understood in the nineteenth century, with extensive parallel commentary from Thoreau's journals and letters. The effect is like having Thoreau himself at our side to gloss the reading." — Robert D. Habich, The New England Quarterly

• Thoreau on Freedom: Attending to Man: Selected Writings of Henry David Thoreau  (Fulcrum Publishing)

This book is an inspirational collection of Henry David Thoreau's writing on the subject of human freedom. In the book's foreword, Arun Gandhi (grandson of Mahatma Gandhi) points out the parallels between Thoreau's views of freedom and those later espoused by Mahatma Gandhi. To Thoreau, deliberate action (as opposed to passive intellectualization) was a key to one's personal development, as well as effectively dealing with political and social issues. Drawing from several sources, the reader can sense the anger and passion Thoreau felt while analyzing the concept of freedom during a time in history when slavery was thriving. Thoreau writes: "Slavery produced no sweet-scented flower like the water-lily, for its flower must smell like itself. It will be a carrion flower." For many, Thoreau's writings will find significant relevance in today's world and the issues we face. — The Tampa Tribune  

• “Long Love and Constant Spirits: An Interview with Richard and Charlee Wilbur” (The Literary Review, Summer 2002 “The Secret Life of Writers” issue) pp. 762-776
   
• “Collaboration: An Interview with Marge Piercy and Ira Wood” (Kestrel 17, Fall 2001 [March 2002]) pp. 28-45
   
• Entries in The Robert Frost Encyclopedia (Greenwood Press): Books: A Boy’s Will, In the Clearing, Mountain Interval, Twilight; Poems: “The Discovery of the Madeiras,” “In Neglect,” “Precaution,” “Sycamore” and “We Vainly Wrestle...”; Uncollected Poetry
   

• “A Different Education” (Paths of Learning, Autumn 2000) pp. 20-24
  Reprinted: Journal for Living “The Myths of Education” issue, no. 23, 2001
   

• “Peaceable Island: A Conversation with Maxine Kumin and Victor Kumin” (New Letters, Vol. 66, No. 3) pp. 60–79
   

• “The Long White House That Holds Love and Work Together: An Interview with Donald Hall at Eagle Pond Farm” (Meridian, Number 4, Fall 1999) pp. 42–66  ·Excerpt
   

• "With Jane and Without: An Interview with Donald Hall” (The Massachusetts Review, Vol. XXXIX, No. 4 [Winter 1998–99]) pp. 493–510
  Reprinted: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 151 (Farmington, MI: The Gale group, 2002)
   

• “Weaning: One Man’s Story” in The Reality of Breastfeeding, edited by Amy Benson Brown and Kathryn Read McPherson (South Hadley, MA: Bergin and Garvey, c1998)  p. 139–143
   

• “Alone, Like Ice” (poem) (Troubadour, A Journal of Lyric Poetry, Vol. II, No. 1 [Fall/Winter 1998]) p. 24
   

• “Catching the Garter” (Baybury Review, Vol. 2 [1998]) p. 9–11.
   

• “Mountaineer” (poem) (The Formalist, Vol. 8 [1997], no. 2) p. 115
   

• “Fly Me to the Moon” (Princeton Arts Review, Fall 1997) pp. 33–34.
   

• “The Toad Not Taken” (Endangerspeak, Fall/Winter 1997) pp. 6–7,10–11,15
   

• “The Vas Difference” (Your Health Magazine, April 29, 1997) pp. 64–67
   

• “Heaven” (The Boston Parents’ Paper, June 1996) p. 33–34
  Reprinted: Genesee Valley Parent Magazine, June 1998;  Syracuse Parent, June 1999 
   

• “The Twenty-Dollar Starling” (Snowy Egret, Summer 1995 issue [published in 1996]) p.20–21
   

• Robert Frost Among His Poems: A Literary Companion to the Poet's Own Biographical Contexts and Associations (Jefferson, NC: London: McFarland and Co., c1996) [Published 12/95]

“In the past seven years—indeed in this decade—we have seen the appearance of major critical studies on Frost . . . ground breaking studies by . . . Jeffrey Cramer . . . ”— Earl J. Wilcox, Director, Robert Frost Society, in The Robert Frost Review, Fall 1997, p. iii

 

“Indispensable for Frost studies.”  — Choice, May 1996, p. 1474

 

Nominated for a 1996 American Library Association/Dartmouth College Dartmouth Medal

 

This book has been especially useful to me in my research, often pointing me in specific directions with regard to the biographical contexts of particular poems.” —Jay Parini in Robert Frost: A Life (New York: Henry Holt, 1999) p. 468

• “Praying for Mantises” (The Boston Parents’ Paper, August 1995) p. 44
  reprinted The Parents’ Paper [Florence, SC], April 1998 (p. 2, 7); Genesee Valley Parent Magazine, July 1998 (p. 30–31)
   

• “[Worcester Tree]” (Worcester Magazine, June 21–27 1995) p. 46
   

• “How Many In a Bed?” (The Boston Parents’ Paper, May 1994) p. 44
  Reprinted Atlanta Baby, September/October 1997, as “The Family Bed” ( p. 25); The Parents’ Paper [Florence, SC], January 1998 (p.  4);  Family Publishing Group: Connecticut Family, Westchester Family and New York Family, March 1998.
   

• “Forgotten Frost: A Study of the Uncollected and Unpublished Poetry of Robert Frost, Part Two” (The Robert Frost Review 1993) pp. 1–23
   

• “Z693 to Z712: Reclassifying My Life” (TechTalk: The Newsletter of the Technical Services Section of the Massachusetts Library Association, #54, Winter 1993) pp. 1–2
   

• “Forgotten Frost: A Study of the Uncollected and Unpublished Poetry of Robert Frost, Part One” (The Robert Frost Review 1992) pp. 1–27
   

• “The Spectre of the Real” by Thomas Hardy and Florence Henniker, edited with notes (The Thomas Hardy Yearbook, vol. 13, 1986) pp. 6–34
   

• “Caedmon’s Hymn” (poem) translated from the Anglo-Saxon (The Christian Science Monitor, April 13, 1982) p. 21
   

• “The Grotesque in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders” (The Thomas Hardy Yearbook, vol. 8, 1980) pp. 25–29
   

• “Hardy, Henniker and ‘The Spectre of the Real’ ” (The Thomas Hardy Society Review, 1977) pp. 89–91

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