Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

A selective list of online literary criticism for American essayist Henry David Thoreau, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association

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Literary Criticism

Bennett, Michael. "Thoreau's Sense of Place: Essays in American Environmental Writing." College Literature, Spring 2002

Bickman, Martin. "Thoreau and the Tradition of the Active Mind." In Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education, at American Transcendentalism Web

Bryson, J. Scott. "Seeing the West Side of Any Mountain: Thoreau and Contemporary Ecological Poetry." Jack Magazine, Issue 5

Buell, Laurence. The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (Harvard University Press, 1995). Preview at Google Books.

Buell, Laurence. A review of Buell's The Environmental Imagination, reviewed by Steven Marx

Buell, Laurence. In response to "The Struggle Over Thoreau." Reply by Leo Marx. NY Review of Books, Dec. 2, 1999. A debate about the environmental movement and literature, between two important literary critics.

Harding, Walter. "Five Ways of Looking at Walden." At the Walden Institute

Hirshfield, Jane. "Thoreau's hound: On hiddenness." American Poetry Review, May/Jun 2002

Howarth, William. "What Nature Knows: Literature and History In Environmental Studies," excerpts from a lecture, 1/21/97

Schneider, Richard J., ed. A review of Thoreau's Sense of Place: Essays in American Environmental Writing (Univ. of Iowa Press, 2000). Reviewed in College Literature, Spring 2002 by Bennett, Michael

Walls, Laura Dassow. A review of Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1995). Reviewed in Northeastern Naturalist, 2000 by McAninch, Anna

Woodlief, Ann. "Emerson and Thoreau as American Prophets of Eco-wisdom." Paper presented to Virginia Humanities Conference, 1990, at American Transcendentalism Web

Woodlief, Ann. "The Influence of Theories of Rhetoric on Thoreau." Thoreau Journal Quarterly, VII (January 1975), 13-22. At American Transcendentalism Web

Yarborough, Wynn. On changes in critics' reaction to Thoreau's "Resistance to Civil Government" from the 1920s to the 1970s. At American Transcendentalism Web

Becker, Jack. Reviews Jonathan Bate's The Song of the Earth and Lawrence Buell's Writing for an Endangered World. At Carnegie Council, 2003 (taken offline)

Introduction

Maynard, W. Barksdale. "Thoreau's house at Walden." Art Bulletin, June, 1999

Sattelmeyer, Robert. "Introduction." Henry David Thoreau, The Natural History Essays. At The Walden Institute

The American Transcendentalism Web covers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Theodore Parker, Amos Bronson Alcott, Jones Very, William Ellery Channing, Christopher Cranch, Orestes Brownson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody; contains articles about the roots of American Transcendentalism and its legacy; reprints important essays; has books reviews, recommended links, and much more

Access to peer-reviewed critical articles in the American Transcendental Quarterly. ATQ was edited by Professor Josie P. Campbell, University of Rhode Island.

Web site for The Walden Institute, dedicated to conservation, education, and research.

Three exceptional figures: frugality as a moral and political protest against the established order - lifestyles of Epictetus, Henry David Thoreau, and Mahatma Gandhi. UNESCO Courier, Jan, 1998 by Adam Roberts

Teaching Thoreau from the Heath Anthology web site

Selected Bibliography on Henry David Thoreau from Gonzoga Univ. professor Donna Campbell

The Thoreau Project at Northern Illinois Univ. provides information the publication of the The Writings of Thoreau and texts of Thoreau's complete works. A rich source of material on Thoreau (taken offline from www.thoreau.niu.edu/project_main.html)

"A sage for all seasons." John Updike on Walden, in The (UK) Guardian, June 26, 2004 (taken offline)

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