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A Natural History of Nature Writing is a penetrating overview of the origins and development of a uniquely American literature. Essayist and poet Frank Stewart describes in rich and compelling prose the lives and works of the most prominent American nature writers of the19th and 20th centuries, including:
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My thanks foremost to Howard Boyer, whose encouragement, love of nature writing, and good judgment from the beginning have been of immeasurable help in completing this book. I thank Pat Matsueda for patiently and expertly reading drafts and suggesting ways to compress a complex history; Tom Farber for, among other gifts, a writers friendship; and Kathy Matsueda for proofreading and technical assistance. Ann Hawthorne provided keen, superb copyediting, for which I am most grateful.
Finally, I can hardly begin to thank Lisa Erb, because of whom, as Thoreau said, I have never got over my surprise that I should have been born into the most estimable place in all the world, and in the very nick of time.
Notes to Chapter One
Henry Seidel Canby, Thoreau: The Biography of a Man Who Believed in Doing What He Wanted (Boston: Beacon Press, 1939), p. 294.
William Howarth, The Book of Concord: Thoreaus Life as a Writer (New York: Viking Press, 1982), p. 61.
Edith Peairs, The Hound, the Bay Horse, and the Turtle Dove: A Study of Thoreau and Voltaire, PMLA 52, no. 3 (Sept. 1937): 863-69.
Henry David Thoreau, The Journal of Henry D. Thoreau , ed. Bradford Torrey and Francis H. Allen, 14 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906; reprint, Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith,1984), May 31,1853.
Henry Thoreau, The Natural History of Massachusetts, in The Natural History Essays (Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1980), p. 29.
Thoreau, Journal , Aug. 19,1851.
Ibid.
Ibid., June 6,1851.
Ibid., May 31,1853.
Quoted in Robert D. Richardson, Jr., Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), p. 247.
Quoted in ibid., p. 250.
Thoreau, Journal , June 7,1851.
Ibid., July 23,1851.
William C. Johnson, Jr., What Thoreau Said: Walden and the Unsayable (Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1991), p. XVI.
Thoreau, Journal , Dec. 20, 1851, quoted in Johnson, What Thoreau Said , p. 64.
Thoreau, Journal , Sept. 2,1851.
Henry D. Thoreau, The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, ed. Walter Harding and Carl Bode (New York: New York University Press, 1985), p. 125. See also Henry Golemba, Thoreaus Wild Rhetoric (New York: New York University Press, 1990), p. 106.
Thoreau, Journal , June 23, 1840.
Johnson, What Thoreau Said , p. 151.
Notes to Chapter Two
Gilbert White, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton (London: Benjamin White & Son,1789); reprint, ed. Richard Mabey (New York: Penguin, 1987), p. 140.
Quoted in Walter S. Scott, White of Selborne and His Times (London: John Westhouse, 1946), pp. 12528.
White, Natural History, p. 139.
Ibid., p. 122.
Quoted in Paul G.M. Foster, Gilbert White and His Records: A Scientific Biography (London: Christopher Helm, 1988), p.130.
See Donald Worster, Natures Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977), pp. 3-25. See also Roderick Frazier Nash, The Rights of Nature (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989), pp. 22-24.
Foster, Gilbert White , p. 159.
Quoted in John Hildebidle, Thoreau: A Naturalists Liberty (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983), p. 33.
Virginia Woolf, Whites Selborne, in The Captains Death Bed (London: Hogarth Press, 1950), p. 23; quoted in W.J. Keith, The Rural Tradition: A Study of the Non-fiction Prose Writers of the English Countryside (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974), p. 56.
White, Natural History , p. 136.
Ibid., pp. 65, 81.
Quoted in Keith, The Rural Tradition, p. 55.
Hildebidle, Thoreau, pp. 24-39.
Woolf, Whites Selborne, p. 20; quoted in Keith, The Rural Tradition, p. 52.
White, Natural History, p. 93.
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, ed. Leonard Engel (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1962), p. xxiii; quoted in Hildebidle, Thoreau, pp. 30-31.
Hildebidle, Thoreau, pp. 24-31.
Worster, Natures Economy , p. 5.
David Elliston Allen, The Naturalist in Britain: A Social History (London: Allen Lane, 1976), p. 99.
Ibid., p. 50.
Ibid., pp. 50-51.
Worster, Natures Economy, p. 16.
Thoreau, Correspondence, pp. 309-10.
MS, New York Public Library, quoted in Walter Harding, The Days of Henry Thoreau: A Biography (New York: Dover, 1982), pp. 243-44; Thoreau, Correspondence , p. 453; MS, Concord Library, quoted in Henry Seidel Canby, Thoreau (Boston: Beacon Press, 1939), p. 433.
Richardson, Henry Thoreau , p. 309.
White, Natural History, p. 125.
Thoreau, Journal , Nov. 12,1853.
Richardson, Henry Thoreau, p. 309.
Thoreau, Journal, April 19 and May 6,1854. See Richardson, Henry Thoreau, pp. 30910.
Quoted in Worster, Natures Economy , p. 64.
Quoted in Fritz Oehlschlaeger and George Hendrick, eds., Toward the Making of Thoreaus Modern Reputation (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979), p. 111.
Hildebidle, Thoreau, p. 46.
See ibid., p. 47.
Thoreau, Journal, Nov. 9, 1851; quoted in Golemba, Thoreaus Wild Rhetoric, p. 2.
Thoreau, Journal, Nov. 5,1857.
See Golemba, Thoreaus Wild Rhetoric, pp. 198-99.
Notes to Chapter Three
Thoreau, Journal, Nov. 30,1858.
Ibid.
See H. Daniel Peck, Thoreaus Morning Work: Memory and Perception in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack River , the Journal , and Walden (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), p. 50.
Thoreau , Journal , Dec. 25, 1851.
Ibid., Nov. 30, 1858.
Peck, Thoreaus Morning Work , pp. 65-66.
Ibid., p. 53.
See ibid., passim.
Thoreau, Journal, Nov. 1, 1851.
See F. O. Matthiessen, American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1941), for a discussion of seeing among nineteenth-century American writers.
Thoreau, Journal, March 15, 1842.
Ibid., April 10, 1841.
Ibid., Nov. 1, 1851.
Ibid., Sept. 13, 1852. See also Naomi J. Miller, Seer and Seen: Aspects of Vision in Thoreaus Cape Cod, ESQ 29 (1983): 19091.
See Joel Porte, Emerson and Thoreau: Transcendentalists in Conflict (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1966); idem, Emerson, Thoreau, and the Double Consciousness, NEQ 41 (1968):40-50; and Edward Wagenknecht, Henry David Thoreau: What Manner of Man? (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981), pp. 123-54.
Thoreau, Journal, Oct. 27, 1858.
Ibid.
John Ruskin, Modern Painters, Volume Two (1846; New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1884); pt. 3, sec. 1, chap.1, p. 5; quoted in Richardson, Henry Thoreau , p. 359.
Thoreau, Journal, Aug. 22, 1851.
John Ruskin, The Elements of Drawing & The Elements of Perspective (London: Dutton, 1907; first published 1857), p. 103.
Originally in Thoreau, Journal , March 15, 1842.
Ruskin, The Elements of Drawing, p. 100.
Thoreau, Journal, Oct. 6,1857; see Wagenknecht, Henry David Thoreau , pp.34, 151-54.
Thoreau, Journal, Oct. 6, 1858.
Henry David Thoreau, Autumnal Tints, in The Natural History Essays (Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1980), pp. 137-77. The other essays were Life without Principles, Walking, and Wild Apples.
Thoreau, Autumnal Tints, p. 174.
See Wagenknecht, Henry David Thoreau, p.153; and Peck, Thoreaus Morning Work , p. 97.
William Gilpin, Observations on the River Wye... 1770, quoted in Hans Huth, Nature and the American: Three Centuries of Changing Attitudes (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1957), p. 12.
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