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...Louis J. Budd Thoreau as World Traveler . By Christie John Aldrich . New York : Columbia University Press with the co-operation of the American Geographical Society , 1965 . Pp. xiii , 358 . $8.75 . The Days of Henry Thoreau . By Harding Walter . New York : Alfred...

...Henry Petroski Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Henry Petroski H. D. Thoreau, Engineer Since it was an age of self-reliance and self- education, not only in the nascent profession of engineering and the emerging industry of pencil making but also among citizens gener­ ally, what...

...James Paul Brawner Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 THOREAU AS WIT AND HUMORIST JAMES PAUL BRAWNER ONE OF THE most unaccountable judgments in the history of American literary criticism is that of James Russell Lowell on Henry Thoreau: He had no humor. Lowell did not elaborate...

...J. P. Brawner Thoreau: The Quest and the Classics . By Seybold Ethel . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1951 . Yale Studies in English, No. 116 . Pp. x , 146 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews 169 Thoreau: The Quest ani the Classics...

...Jonathan Fairbanks Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 Thoreau: Speaker for Wildness Jonathan Fairbanks Most human beings at some point want to be in a land or at least see a territory untrammeled by humanity, free of our influence, pristine and unviolated. We wish to witness...

...Walter Harding Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Henry Thoreau and Ellen Sewall Walter Harding For a century the full details of the love story of Ellen Sewall and Henry David Thoreau have been shrouded in such vagueness that Perry Miller recently dismissed the whole story...

...J. P. Brawner Henry David Thoreau . By Krutch Joseph Wood . New York : William Sloane Associates , 1948 . American Men of Letters Series . Pp. xiii , 298 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 298 The South Atlantic Quarterly Poe scholarship...

...Herman Nibbelink Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Thoreau and Wendell Berry: Bachelor and Husband of Nature Herman Nibbelink Wendell Berry s agrarian fiction, poetry, and essays twenty-eight volumes thus far counter the drift of American literature away from a considera­ tion...

...Lawrence Willson Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 THOREAU AND THE NATURAL DIET* Lawrence Willson WHEN THOREAU was questioned too closely by doubters and unbelievers concerning the character of his diet during his residence at Walden Pond where he ate, he said, in one...

...Charles Child Walcutt Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 THOREAU IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY CHARLES CHILD WALCUTT THE WORKS of Henry David Thoreau continue to be read in spite of determined neglect and the repeated charge that he has nothing to offer the modern world. The more he...

...Leo Stoller Consciousness in Concord: The Text of Thoreau’s Hitherto “Lost Journal” (1840-1841), Together with Notes and a Commentary . Edited by Miller Perry . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1958 . Pp. xi , 233 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959...

...Leo Stoller The Shores of America: Thoreau’s Inward Exploration . By Paul Sherman . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1958 . Pp. xiii , 433 . $6.75 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 Book Reviews 623 fectly annotates the complaint in 11. 55-68...

..., 238. $3.00. The stated aim of Mr. Cook s study is to penetrate the essential quality and evoke the richness of Henry Thoreau s correspondence with nature. The book is not biographical; chronology is disregarded, and no attempt is made to trace changes or development in Thoreau s thought or to show...

... stylistic mode of Walden. He emphasizes that the book is the account of a spiritual quest, and also that joy in life is at the heart of Thoreau s re-creation of his experience. Time and time again he uses his knowl­ edge of Thoreau s journal and Thoreau s reading to deepen our under­ standing of the text...

... an extra deadpan joke in it flour, sugar, lard, apples, dried apples, sweet potatoes, one pumpkin, and salt are listed with the marginal notation, All experiments which failed. Spartan simplicity, for Thoreau, stopped short of excluding pie, and he had to admit that he couldn t make it as well as his...

..., their authors were neither scholars nor literary craftsmen. Their recollections, when not too vague, did yield the flavor of A Day with Whittier or A Visit to Thoreau s Cabin at Walden or An Hour in the Laboratory of Professor Agassiz, but nothing of the long sequence of days and hours when the writer had...

... stylistic mode of Walden. He emphasizes that the book is the account of a spiritual quest, and also that joy in life is at the heart of Thoreau s re-creation of his experience. Time and time again he uses his knowl­ edge of Thoreau s journal and Thoreau s reading to deepen our under­ standing of the text...

..., critic, and writer of tales can almost be counted on the fingers of one hand. The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe is the most important book on the subject since Arthur Hobson Quinn s biography appeared in 1941. Jay B. Hubbell. Henry David Thoreau. By Joseph Wood Krutch. New York: William Sloane Associates...

... of Thoreau: This is, mind you, suburbia, she says in a later essay. It is a five-minute walk in three directions to rows of houses. . . . There s a 55 mph highway at one end of [Hollins] pond, and a nesting pair of wood ducks at the other. Under every bush is a muskrat hole or a beer can. 3 Her overriding...

... Miller tries to prove that Thoreau chose to limit himself to the monologue of the Journal, he resorts to misrepresenta­ tion. It is simply not true that at the end of the fifties Thoreau would search through [the Journal} for essays which, after his death, his sister and friends could furnish...