Many More Thoreaus

Walter Harding and Michael Meyer. The New Thoreau Handbook. New York: New York University Press, 1980,238 + xviii pp. Mary Elkins Moller. Thoreau in the Human Community. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980,202 + xvi pp. Fritz Oehlschlaeger and George Hendrick, eds. Toward the Making of Thoreau's Modern Reputation: Selected Correspondence of S.A.Jones, A. W. Hosmer, H. S. Salt, H. G. O. Blake, and D. Ricketson. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979,413 + xx pp. Edward Wagenknecht. Henry David Thoreau: What Manner of Man? Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981. 212 pp. Walter Harding's A Thoreau Handbook1 gave valuable aid to Thoreauvians of many stripes and vintages. At a time when no cumulative bibliographies or bibliographical essays were at hand, with the partial exception of LHUS and the earliest edition of Eight American Authors,2 Harding's handbook was able to list and describe nearly all material up through 1957. It is clear from the large amount of work on Thoreau from 1958 to now, however, and the complex thought and genuine new knowledge it contains, that Harding's and Michael Meyer's The New Thoreau Handbook could not include as much of the total material, could not comment on it as fully, might find more difficulty conveying the full range of our interest in Thoreau, and for these and other reasons might not be of use to as many Thoreauvians. Both handbooks also have a bibliography at the end of each section; these listings continue to be undoubtedly helpful, whatever questions we may raise about the discussions that precede them

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• Anatomy of Criticism

  Northrop Frye•Anatomy of Criticism•1957

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• Literary History of the United States

  Open Access•Daniel Aaron, Daniel G Aaron et al.•American Quarterly•1949

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