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About Thoreau Briefly
Brief Overviews:
- Thoreau’s Life
- The Thoreau Log: A Digital Documentary Life of Henry D. Thoreau
- Thoreau as a Writer
- Thoreau as a Philosopher
- Thoreau’s Writings
- Social Reform
- Walden, The Place
- Thoreau and the Environment
- For Further Reading: A Select Bibliography
About Thoreau A – Z
A
- Abbott, Charles Conrad (1843-1919) — Thoreau (from Notes of the Night, and Other Outdoor Sketches)
- Ackerman, Joy Whitely — Walden: A Sacred Geography
- Adams, Raymond (1898-1987)
- Æsthetic Papers
- Albee, John (1833-1915) — Remembrances of Emerson: Excerpts on Thoreau
- Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799-1888)
- Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888)
- Angelo, Ray
- Art
- Gibbons, Prescott (1960- )
- Watson, Amelia Montague (1856-1934)
- The Atlantic Monthly
B
- Blake, Harrison Gray Otis (1816-1898)
- Brooks, Charles Timothy (1813-1883)
- Brooks, Paul (1909-1998)
- Brown, John (1800-1859)
- Brown, Mary Hosmer (1856-1929) — Henry David Thoreau (from Memories of Concord)
- Brown, Theophilus (1811-1879)
- Bussewitz, Albert W. (1912-1995) — Thoreau and the Conservation Ethic
C
- Cabot, James Elliot (1821-1903)
- Channing, Edward Tyrrel (1790-1856)
- Channing, William Ellery (1817-1901) — Walks with Ellery Channing (The Atlantic Monthly, July 1902)
- Childs, Christopher — Clear Sky, Pure Light: Encounters with Henry David Thoreau
- Cholmondeley, Thomas (1823-1864)
- Child, Lydia Maria (1802-1880)
- Clark, Jill Morgan — Henry David Thoreau: The Darwinian Naturalist (A Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Liberal Studies, Rollins College, 2005)
- Cooke, George Willis (1848-1923) — The Two Thoreaus (The Independent, 10 December 1896)
- Cranch, Christopher Pearse (1813-1892)
- Curtis, George William (1824-1892)
D
- Dawes, Lewis C. (1863-1936)
- Dean, Bradley P. (1954-2006) and Ronald Wesley Hoag — Thoreau’s Lectures
- The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion
- Drake, William — Spiritual Ideals and Scientific Facts: Thoreau’s Search for Reality (The Western Thoreau Centenary: Selected Papers)
- Dwight, John Sullivan (1813-1893)
E
- Ells, Stephen F. (1935-2008) — A Bibliography of Biodiversity and Natural History in the Sudbury and Concord River Valley
- Emerson, Edward Bliss (1805-1834)
- Emerson, Ellen Louisa Tucker (1811-1831)
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
F
- Fields, James T. (1817-1881) — Our Poet-Naturalist
- Fleck, Richard F.
- Freeman, Brister (1744-1822)
- Frothingham, Octavius Brooks (1822-1895) — Transcendentalism in New England (from Transcendentalism in New England: A History)
- Fruitlands
- Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850)
- Fuller, Richard Frederick (1824-1869) — The Younger Generation in 1840 (The Atlantic Monthly, August 1923)
G
- Garrison, Willian Lloyd (1805-1879)
- Gibbons, Prescott (1960- ) — Walden Pond Series
- Gleason, Herbert Wendell (1855-1937) — Herbert W. Gleason Photographs (The Writings of Henry David Thoreau) 1906
- Gohdes, Clarence L.F. (1901-1997) — Elizabeth Peabody and Her Æsthetic Papers (from The Periodicals of American Transcendentalism)
- Goodwin, Parke (1816-1904) — Organization (Æsthetic Papers, 1849)
- Greeley, Horace (1811-1872)
H
- Harding, Walter (1917-1996)
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864) — Hawthorne Writes About Thoreau
- Hecker, Isaac Thomas (1819-1888)
- Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (1823-1911)
- Amos Bronson Alcott (from Contemporaries. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899)
- Lydia Maria Child (from Contemporaries. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (from Contemporaries. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899)
- Thoreau (from Short Studies of American Authors)
- A Visit to John Brown’s Household in 1859 (from Contemporaries. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899)
- Wendell Phillips (from Contemporaries. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899)
- Hoag, Ronald Wesley and Bradley P. Dean — Thoreau’s Lectures
- Hoar, Elizabeth (1814-1878)
- Hooper, Ellen Sturgis (1812-1848)
- Hosmer, Gladys Eleanor Holden (1887?-1970) — Remarks on Thoreau, Concord, and Walden
I
- Indians
- Henry Thoreau and John Muir Among the Indians by Richard F. Fleck (Archon Books, 1985; with errata and addendum, 2009)
- Selections from the “Indian Notebooks” (1847-1861) of Henry D. Thoreau, Transcribed, with an Introduction and additional material, by Richard F. Fleck
- Ingraham, Cato (1751-1805)
J
- James, Henry (1843-1916) — The American Scene: Concord
- Jones, Samuel Arthur (1834-1912)
- Joyce, Kristina
K
L
- Lane, Charles (1800-1870) — The Consociate Family Life
- Langton, Jane (1922-2018) — Two Uncollected Talks — The Uses of New England Ecstasy • The War in Vietnam, the First Parish in Lincoln, Me, and Henry Thoreau
- Lovejoy, Elijah Parish (1802-1837)
- Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)
M
- Mac Donnell, Kevin — Collecting Henry David Thoreau by Kevin Mac Donnell
- McCurdy, Michael (1942-2016) — Clear Sky, Pure Light: Encounters with Henry David Thoreau
- Metzger, Charles R. — Thoreau and Whitman: A Study of Their Esthetics (University of Washington Press, 1961)
- Mountains
N
O
P
- Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer (1804-1894)
- Perkins, Stephen H. — Abuse of Representative Government (Æsthetic Papers, 1849)
- Photography
- Gleason, Herbert Wendell (1855-1937)
- Hosmer, Alfred Winslow (1851-1903)
- Portfolio of Cartes de Visite
- Pratt, Minot (1805-1878) — A Biographical Sketch of Minot Pratt by Ray Angelo
Q
R
- Reed, Sampson (1800-1880) — Genius (Æsthetic Papers, 1849)
- Ricketson, Daniel (1813-1898) — A Sketch of Henry D. Thoreau
- Ripley, Sophia (1803–1861) — Woman (The Dial, January 1841)
- Robbins, Roland Wells (1908-1987)
- Rose, Edward J. — “A World With Full and Fair Proportions”: The Aesthetics and the Politics of Vision (The Western Thoreau Centenary: Selected Papers)
S
- Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin (1831-1917)
- Sattelmeyer, Robert — Thoreau’s Reading: A Study in Intellectual History With Bibliographical Catalogue
- Schofield, Edmund A. (1938-2010)
- Shanley, J. Lyndon (1910-1996) — Transcription of the First Version of Walden
- Sherwood, Mary (1906-2001)
- Stearns, Frank Preston (1846-1917) — Sketches from Concord and Appledore: An Excerpt
T
- Taylor, J. Golden — Thoreau and the Integrity of the Individual (The Western Thoreau Centenary: Selected Papers)
- Thoreau, Sophia (1819-1876)
- Thoreau’s Contemporaries On Thoreau
- Torrey, Bradford (1843-1912)
- Thoreau as a Diarist (The Atlantic Monthly, January 1905)
- Thoreau’s Attitude Toward Nature (The Atlantic Monthly, November 1899)
U
V
- Very, Jones (1813-1880)
W
- The Walden Woods Project Archives
- Ward, Samuel Gray (1817–1907)
- Watson, Amelia Montague (1856-1934)
- The Western Thoreau Centenary: Selected Papers
- Wheeler, Charles Stearns (1816-1843)
- Wheeler, Ruth (1890-1973) — A Thoreau Herbarium
- White, Zilpah (1738-1820)
- Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)
- Wilson, William Dexter (1868-1900)
- Wilkinson, James John Garth (1812-1899) —Correspondence (Æsthetic Papers, 1849)