RESOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Illustration by Lane Yerkes (from Smithsonian, November 1988).
Reproduced by kind permission of the artist.

For information about Thoreau (biography, writings available on line, portraits, scholarship, etc.), see the following sites:

The Thoreau Society
The Thoreau Reader
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
The Thoreau Institute
Henry David Thoreau
The Transcendentalists: Henry David Thoreau
Ecology Hall of Fame: Henry David Thoreau
The Concord Magazine (frequently features articles about Thoreau)

And for fun:

a card model of Thoreau's cabin at Walden
Pooh of Walden Pond

BIOGRAPHY

Borst, Raymond R. The Thoreau Log: A Documentary Life of Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862. New York: G.K. Hall, 1992.
Channing, William Ellery. Thoreau: The Poet-Naturalist. Ed. F. B. Sanborn. Boston: Chas. E. Goodspeed, 1902.
Harding, Walter. The Days of Henry Thoreau. Rev. ed. New York: Dover, 1982.
Harding, Walter, ed. Thoreau As Seen by His Contemporaries. Rev. ed. New York: Dover, 1989.
Howarth, William L. The Book of Concord: Thoreau's Life as a Writer. New York: Viking, 1982.
Lebeaux, Richard. Young Man Thoreau. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1977.
Lebeaux, Richard. Thoreau's Seasons. Amherst: U of Massachsuetts P, 1984.
Richardson, Robert D. Thoreau: A Life of the Mind. Berkeley: U of California P. 1986.
Sattelmeyer, Robert. Thoreau's Reading: A Study in Intellectual History with Bibliographical Catalogue. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1988.
Wagenknecht, Edward. Henry David Thoreau: What Manner of Man? Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1981.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Allen Francis H. A Bibliography of Henry David Thoreau. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1908.
Blanck, Jacob. Bibliography of American Literature, Volume Eight: Charles Warren Stoddard to Susan B. Warner. Ed. Michael Winship. New Haven: Yale UP, 1989.
Borst, Raymond R. Henry David Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1982.
Borst, Raymond R. Henry David Thoreau: A Reference Guide, 1875-1899. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1987.
Boswell, Jeanetta. "Henry David Thoreau." The American Renaissance and the Critics: The Best of a Century of Criticism. Wakefield, NH: Longwood Academic, 1990.
Boswell, Jeanetta, and Sarah Crouch. Henry David Thoreau and the Critics. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1981.
Burnham, Philip E., and Carvel Collins. "Contributions toward a Bibliography of Thoreau, 1938-1945." Bulletin of Bibliography 19 (Sept.-Dec. 1946, Jan.-April 1947): 16-19, 37-39.
Harding, Walter, and Jean Cameron Advena. A Bibliography of Thoreau Society Bulletin Bibliographies, 1941-1969. Troy, N.Y.: Whitston, 1971.
Harding, Walter, and Michael Meyer. The New Thoreau Handbook. New York: New York UP, 1980.
Hildebrand, Christopher A. A Bibliography of Scholarship About Henry David Thoreau, 1940-1967. Fort Hays, Kansas: Fort Hays State College, 1967.
Leary, Lewis. "Henry David Thoreau." Eight American Authors: A Review of Research and Criticism. Ed. James Woodress. New York: Norton, 1971.
Meyer, Michael. "Henry David Thoreau." The Transcendentalists: A Review of Research and Criticism. Ed. Joel Myerson. New York: Modern Language Association, 1984.
Myerson, Joel, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.
Scharnhorst, Gary. Henry David Thoreau: An Annotated Bibliography of Comment and Criticism Before 1900. Hamden, CT: Garland, 1992.
Wade, Joseph S. "A Contribution to a Bibliography of Henry David Thoreau from 1909 to 1939." Journal of the New York Entomological Association 47 (June 1939): 163-203.
White, William. A Henry David Thoreau Bibliography, 1908-1937. Boston: Faxon, 1939. Rpt. ARLR 6 (1992):229-40.
Woodlief, Annette M. "Walden: A Checklist of Literary Criticism through 1973." Resources for American Literary Study 5 (Spring 1975): 15-58.

Continuing bibliographies in:

American Literary Scholarship (annual)
American Literature (quarterly)
MLA International Bibliography, Vol. I (annual)
Thoreau Society Bulletin (quarterly)