About Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau’s Life

• Thoreau’s Life
• A Brief Chronology of Thoreau’s Life
• The Thoreau Log: A Digital Documentary Life of Henry D. Thoreau
• Obituaries

Brief Overviews

• Thoreau as a Writer
• Thoreau as a Philosopher 
• Social Reform
• Walden, The Place
• Thoreau and the Environment
• Concord Poll Tax Protest before Thoreau
• For Further Reading: A Select Bibliography

Remembrances of Thoreau

• Thoreau’s Contemporaries On Thoreau

Works about Thoreau

• Bussewitz, Albert W. (1912-1995) — Thoreau and the Conservation Ethic
• 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)
• Dean, Bradley P. (1954-2006) and Ronald Wesley Hoag — Thoreau’s Lectures
• Drake, William — Spiritual Ideals and Scientific Facts: Thoreau’s Search for Reality (The Western Thoreau Centenary: Selected Papers)
• Fleck, Richard F.
  • Henry Thoreau and the Wilderness
  • Henry Thoreau and John Muir Among the Indians  (Archon Books, 1985; with errata and addendum, 2009)
  • Henry David Thoreau and the Mystic Lore of Cape Cod
  • Irish Interest in Henry David Thoreau
• Harding, Walter (1917-1996)
  • A Defense of Thoreau (1946) (Typescript of “Letter to the editor” to Kelsey Guilfoil of The Chicago Tribune, 1 December 1946)
  • The First Years Sales of Walden (Typescript for TSB #117)
  • In Wildness is the Preservation of the World (Unpublished lecture delivered at the East Tennessee State University, 25 April 1979)
  • On Writing Thoreau’s Biography (Unpublished typescript)
  • Thoreau, Sensuous Transcendentalist (Unpublished talk before the National Council of Teachers of English Convention, 23 November 1973)
  • Twelve Weeks of Thoreau’s Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Unpublished typescript)
• Hosmer, Gladys Eleanor Holden (1887?-1970) — Remarks on Thoreau, Concord, and Walden
• Metzger, Charles R. — Thoreau and Whitman: A Study of Their Esthetics (University of Washington Press, 1961)
• Nearing, Helen (1904-1995)
  • Thoreau: Judged in his own Time (lecture)
  • Thoreau: Then and Now (Talk delivered before The Thoreau Society, July 1994)
• Ricketson, Daniel (1813-1898) — A Sketch of Henry D. Thoreau
• Rose, Edward J. — “A World With Full and Fair Proportions”: The Aesthetics and the Politics of Vision (The Western Thoreau Centenary: Selected Papers)
• Sattelmeyer, Robert — Thoreau’s Reading: A Study in Intellectual History With Bibliographical Catalogue 
• Schofield, Edmund A.  (1938-2010)
  • The Date(s) and Context of Thoreau’s Visit to Brook Farm
  • Thoreau, the Reverend Book-Peddler Hawkins, and the Doctor Lunsford Lane
• Taylor, J. Golden — Thoreau and the Integrity of the Individual (The Western Thoreau Centenary: Selected Papers)
• Torrey, Bradford (1843-1912)
  • Thoreau as a Diarist (The Atlantic Monthly, January 1905)
  • Thoreau’s Attitude Toward Nature (The Atlantic Monthly, November 1899)
• The Western Thoreau Centenary: Selected Papers
• Wheeler, Ruth (1890-1973) — A Thoreau Herbarium