Thoreau, Henry David

See his collected poems, ed. by C. Bode (rev. ed. 1964); his letters, ed. by C. Bode and W. Harding (1958, repr. 1974); his journals, ed. by B. Torrey and F. H. Allen (14 vol., 1906, repr. 2 vol., 1963); biographies by H. S. Canby (1939, repr. 1965), J. W. Krutch (1948, repr. 1973), R. D. Richardson, Jr. (1986), and L. D. Walls (2017); E. H. Wagenknecht, Henry David Thoreau (1981); R. Lebeaux, Thoreau's Seasons (1984) and Young Man Thoreau (1989); R. Schneider, Henry David Thoreau (1987); L. Buell, The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (1995); A. D. Hodder, Thoreau's Ecstatic Witness (2001); W. B. Maynard, Walden Pond: A History (2004).

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