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Born in July 12, 1817 / Died in May 6, 1862 / United States / English

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Bibliographies:

  • Christopher A. Hildenbrand, A Bibliography of Scholarship about Henry David Thoreau: 1940-1967 (Fort Hayes, Kan.: Fort Hayes State College, 1967).
  • Walter Harding and Jean Cameron Advena, A Bibliography of the Thoreau Society Bulletin Bibliographies, 1941-1969 (Troy, N.Y.: Whitston, 1971).
  • Annette M. Woodlief, "Walden: A Checklist of Literary Criticism through 1973," Resources for American Literary Study, 5 (Spring 1975): 15-58.
  • Walter Harding and Michael Meyer, The New Thoreau Handbook (New York: New York University Press, 1980).
  • Jeanetta Boswell and Sarah Crouch, Henry David Thoreau and the Critics: A Checklist of Criticism, 1900-1978 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1981).
  • Raymond Borst, Henry David Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982).
  • Michael Meyer, "Henry David Thoreau," The Transcendentalists: A Review of Research and Criticism, edited by Joel Myerson (New York: MLA, 1984), pp. 260-285.
  • Gary Scharnhorst, Henry David Thoreau: An Annotated Bibliography of Comment and Criticism Before 1900 (New York & London: Garland, 1992).

Biographies:

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Thoreau," Atlantic Monthly, 10 (August 1862): 239-249.
  • William Ellery Channing, Thoreau: The Poet-Naturalist. With Memorial Verses (Boston: Roberts, 1873); enlarged edition, edited by F. B. Sanborn (Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902).
  • H. A. Page [A. H. Japp], Thoreau His Life and Aims (Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1877).
  • F. B. Sanborn, Henry D. Thoreau (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1882).
  • Henry S. Salt, The Life of Henry David Thoreau (London: Richard Bentley, 1890).
  • Edward Emerson, Henry Thoreau as Remembered by a Young Friend (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917).
  • Sanborn, The Life of Henry David Thoreau (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917).
  • Leon Bazelgette, Henry Thoreau, Sauvage (Paris, 1924); translated by Van Wyck Brooks as Henry Thoreau: Bachelor of Nature (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1924).
  • Brooks Atkinson, Henry Thoreau: The Cosmic Yankee (New York: Knopf, 1927).
  • Henry Seidel Canby, Thoreau (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939).
  • Milton Meltzer and Walter Harding, A Thoreau Profile (New York: Crowell, 1962).
  • Walter Harding, The Days of Henry Thoreau (New York: Knopf, 1965; enlarged edition, New York: Dover, 1982).
  • Richard Lebeaux, Young Man Thoreau (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977).
  • Lebeaux, Thoreau's Seasons (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984).
  • Robert D. Richardson Jr., Henry David Thoreau: A Life of the Mind (Berkeley: University of California, 1986).
  • Raymond R. Borst, The Thoreau Log: A Documentary Life of Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862 (New York: Macmillan, 1992).

References:

  • Stephen Adams and Donald Ross Jr., Revising Mythologies: The Composition of Thoreau's Major Works (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1988).
  • Charles R. Anderson, The Magic Circle of Walden (New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1968).
  • Thomas Blanding and Walter Harding, "A Thoreau Iconography," in Studies in the American Renaissance, edited by Joel Myerson (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1980), pp. 1-35; republished as A Thoreau Iconography (Geneseo, N.Y.: Thoreau Society, 1980).
  • Gordon Boudreau, The Roots of Walden and the Tree of Life (Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 1990).
  • Richard Bridgman, Dark Thoreau (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981).
  • Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995).
  • Buell, Literary Transcendentalism: Style and Vision in the American Renaissance (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1973).
  • Joan Burbick, Thoreau's Alternative History: Changing Perspectives on Nature, Culture, and Language (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987).
  • William Cain, ed., The Oxford Guide to Henry David Thoreau (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
  • Sharon Cameron, Writing Nature: Henry Thoreau's Journal (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985).
  • Stanley Cavell, The Senses of Walden (New York: Viking, 1972; enlarged edition, San Francisco: North Point Press, 1981).
  • John Aldrich Christie, Thoreau as World Traveler (New York: Columbia University Press, 1965).
  • Reginald L. Cook, Passage to Walden (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949).
  • Steven Fink, Prophet in the Marketplace: Thoreau's Development as a Professional Writer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992).
  • Arthur Lewis Ford Jr., "The Poetry of Henry David Thoreau," Emerson Society Quarterly, no. 61 (1970): 1-26; republished as The Poetry of Henry David Thoreau (Hartford, Conn.: Transcendental Books, 1970).
  • Victor Carl Friesen, The Spirit of the Huckleberry: Sensuousness in Henry Thoreau (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1984).
  • Frederick Garber, Thoreau's Fable of Inscribing (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991).
  • Garber, Thoreau's Redemptive Imagination (New York: New York University Press, 1977).
  • Michael T. Gilmore, "Walden and the 'Curse of Trade,'" in his American Romanticism and the Marketplace (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985), pp. 35-51.
  • Wendell Glick, ed., The Recognition of Henry David Thoreau (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1969).
  • Henry Golemba, Thoreau's Wild Rhetoric (New York: New York University Press, 1990).
  • Walter Harding, Thoreau: A Century of Criticism (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1954).
  • Harding, Thoreau: Man of Concord (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1962).
  • Harding, Thoreau as Seen by His Contemporaries (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1960; revised edition, New York: Dover, 1989).
  • William A. Herr, "A More Perfect State: Thoreau's Concept of Civil Government," Massachusetts Review, 16 (Summer 1975): 470-487.
  • John Hildebidle, Thoreau: A Naturalist's Liberty (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983).
  • Alan D. Hodder, "'Ex Oriente Lux': Thoreau's Ecstasies and the Hindu Texts," Harvard Theological Review, 86 (Oct. 1993): 403-438.
  • William Howarth, The Book of Concord: Thoreau's Life as a Writer (New York: Viking, 1982).
  • Linck C. Johnson, Thoreau's Complex Weave: The Writing of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, with the Text of the First Draft (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986).
  • Karl Kroeber, "Ecology and American Literature: Thoreau and Un-Thoreau," American Literary History, 9 (Summer 1997): 309-328.
  • Joseph Wood Krutch, Henry David Thoreau (New York: Sloane, 1949).
  • Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1964).
  • F. O. Matthiessen, "From Emerson to Thoreau," in his American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1941), pp. 3-175.
  • Robert Kuhn McGregor, A Wider View of the Universe: Henry Thoreau's Study of Nature (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997).
  • James McIntosh, Thoreau as Romantic Naturalist: His Shifting Stance toward Nature (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1974).
  • Michael Meyer, Several More Lives to Live: Thoreau's Political Reputation in America (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1977).
  • Walter Benn Michaels, "Walden's False Bottoms," Glyph, 1 (1977): 132-149.
  • Robert Milder, Reimagining Thoreau (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
  • Perry Miller, Consciousness in Concord: The Text of Thoreau's Hitherto "Lost Journal" (1840-1841) Together with Notes and a Commentary (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958).
  • Mary Elkins Moller, Thoreau and the Human Community (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980).
  • Joel Myerson, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
  • Myerson, ed., Critical Essays on Henry David Thoreau's Walden (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1988).
  • Leonard N. Neufeldt, The Economist: Henry Thoreau and Enterprise (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
  • Sherman Paul, The Shores of America: Thoreau's Inward Exploration (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1958).
  • Paul, ed., Thoreau: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1962).
  • H. Daniel Peck, Thoreau's Morning Work: Memory and Perception in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, the Journal, and Walden (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990).
  • Henry Petroski, "H. D. Thoreau, Engineer," American Heritage of Invention and Technology, 5, no. 2 (Fall 1989): 8-16.
  • Joel Porte, Emerson and Thoreau: Transcendentalists in Conflict (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1966).
  • Robert D. Richardson Jr., "Thoreau and Science," in American Literature and Science, edited by Robert J. Scholnick (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), pp. 110-127.
  • William Rossi, "Poetry and Progress: Thoreau, Lyell, and the Geological Principles of A Week," American Literature, 66 (June 1994): 275-300.
  • George E. Ryan, "Shanties and Shiftlessness: The Immigrant Irish of Henry Thoreau," Éire, 13 (Fall 1978): 54-78.
  • Robert Sattelmeyer, "The Remaking of Walden," in Writing the American Classics, edited by James Barbour and Tom Quirk (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990), pp. 53-78.
  • Sattelmeyer, Thoreau's Reading: A Study in Intellectual History with Bibliographical Catalogue (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988).
  • Robert F. Sayre, New Essays on Walden (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
  • Sayre, Thoreau and the American Indians (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977).
  • Gary Scharnhorst, Henry David Thoreau: A Case Study in Canonization (Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1993).
  • Don Scheese, Nature Writing: The Pastoral Impulse in America (Boston: Twayne, 1996).
  • Richard J. Schneider, Henry David Thoreau (Boston: Twayne, 1987).
  • Schneider, ed., Approaches to Teaching Thoreau's Walden and Other Works (New York: MLA, 1996).
  • Schneider, ed., Thoreau's Sense of Place: Essays in American Environmental Writing (Iowa City: University of Iowas Press, 2000).
  • Edmund A. Schofield and Robert C. Baron, Thoreau's World and Ours: A Natural Legacy (Golden, Colo.: North American Press, 1993).
  • Ethel L. Seybold, Thoreau: The Quest and the Classics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951).
  • J. Lyndon Shanley, The Making of Walden, with the Text of the First Version (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957).
  • Lorrie Smith, "'Walking' from England to America: Re-Viewing Thoreau's Romanticism," New England Quarterly, 58 (June 1985): 221-241.
  • Leo Stoller, After Walden: Thoreau's Changing Views on Economic Man (Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 1957).
  • Robert F. Stowell, A Thoreau Gazetteer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970).
  • Bob Pepperman Taylor, America's Bachelor Uncle: Thoreau and the American Polity (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1996).
  • Edward Wagenknecht, Henry David Thoreau: What Manner of Man? (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981).
  • Laura Dassow Walls, Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995).
  • William J. Wolf, Thoreau: Mystic, Prophet, Ecologist (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1974).