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title	:	Thoreau's Seasons New England Writers Series
author	:	Lebeaux, Richard.
publisher	:	University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0870234013
print isbn13	:	9780870234019
ebook isbn13	:	9780585083834
language	:	English
subject	Thoreau, Henry David,--1817-1862--Psychology, Seasons in literature, Authors, American--19th century--Biography.
publication date	:	1984
lcc	:	PS3053.L35 1984eb
ddc	:	818/.309
subject	:	Thoreau, Henry David,--1817-1862--Psychology, Seasons in literature, Authors, American--19th century--Biography.

Page iii Thoreau's Seasons Richard Lebeaux The University of Massachusetts Press Amherst, 1984

Page iv Copyright 1984 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Publication of this book was assisted by the American Council of Learned Societies under a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publishers and authors for permission to reprint material under copyright. Basic Books, Inc., from Robert Jay Lifton, The Broken Connection, 1979 by Robert Jay Lifton. E. P. Dutton, Inc. and Bantam Books, Inc., from Gail Sheehy, Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life, 1974, 1976 by Gail Sheehy. All rights reserved. Twayne Publishers, G. K. Hall & Co., Boston, from Richard Lebeaux, "'Sugar Maple Man': Middle-Aged Thoreau's Generativity Crisis," in Studies in the American Renaissance 1981, ed. Joel Myerson, 1981. Walter Harding, from his The Days of Henry Thoreau (1965; New York: Dover Publications, 1982.). New York University Press, from The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, ed. Walter Harding and Carl Bode, 1958 by New York University. W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., from Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, arranged with notes by Dudley C. Lunt, 1951 by W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., renewed 1979 by Dudley C. Lunt. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., from Daniel J. Levinson, The Seasons of a Man's Life, 1978 by Daniel J. Levinson.

Page v For Rachel and Ellen

Page vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Preface xiii Abbreviations xvii 1 Week of a Man's Life 1 2 Spring Growth 34 3 A Sojourner in Civilized Life Again 64 4 Seedtime 111 5 Second Spring 151 6 But a Morning Star 198 7 Sugar Maple Man 246 8 Ripe for the Fall 293 9 Tracks in the Snow 333 Notes 377 Index 399

Page ix Acknowledgments I have been sounding Thoreau for well over a decade now, seeking to fathom (as he expressed it in Walden) his "depth and concealed bottom." Many people have helped make my soundings for this book possible and, I believe, more sound. As the Notes make clear, I am indebted to a long chain of Thoreau scholars and students of human life and development. I owe a special debt of gratitude to Walter Harding, not only for The Days of Henry Thoreau, the invaluable biography that decisively launched my own expedition into Thoreau, but also for encouraging me to continue beyond Young Man Thoreau. As part of a conference he organized at the State University College of New York at Geneseo in 1978, he gave me an opportunity to reflect on the "later" Thoreau and provided me with my first public forum for trying out some of my ideas. In addition, I am very fortunate to have had Professor Harding as the consulting editor for this book. Certainly he has helped to strengthen it, most particularly by making it more accurate. Another person to whom I am especially indebted is Leone Stein, until recently Director of the University of Massachusetts Press, who believed in me and supported this project from its inception, and who supplied me with sage advice and with a valuable, sensitive reading of the manuscript. Robert Sayre's reactions to the manuscript were extremely thoughtful and perceptive, and Leo Marx responded helpfully to my ideas and parts of this work at different stages. I also very much appreciate the suggestions and guidance of Richard Martin, Pam Campbell, and other members of the staff of the University of Massachusetts Press. Others who have aided with their encouragement, support, and counsel at various stages include Thomas Blanding, John Callahan, Raymond Gozzi, Michael Meyer, Caroline Moseley, Joel Myerson, Richard Noland,

Page x Michael Reed, Edmund Schofield, William Shurr, and Paul Wright. I wish also to thank Henry Silverman, Chairperson of the Department of American Thought and Language at Michigan State, for his support and genuine interest, as well as my many valued friends and dedicated colleagues, present and former, in the department whodespite the heavy demands of their own teaching, paper evaluating, and writingwere concerned, encouraging, and willing to act generously as sounding boards for my ideas. Students in all my classes have provided me with a continuing adult education and with responses to my viewpoints on many issues; they have, I am certain, made their contribution to this book.

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