Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-231) and index.
Contents:
Index. Introduction / Steven Hartman -- Thoreau : the quest and the classics / Ethel Seybold -- Naturalizing Eden : science and sainthood in Walden / John Hildebidle -- From A week to Walden / Robert Sattelmeyer -- Springs to remember / Gordon V. Boudreau -- "Patron of the World" : Henry Thoreau as Wordsworthian poet / Lance Newman -- Living poetry / David M. Robinson -- Thoreau, Homer, and community / Robert Oscar LoĢpez -- Thoreau, crystallography, and the science of the transparent / Eric G. Wilson -- "The life excited" : faces of Thoreau in Walden / Steven Hartman -- Chronology -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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