Table of Contents for
Walden and Beyond: An Anthology
Below is the complete table of contents for Walden and Beyond: An Anthology, published by Psymon and available for free download on this site. As one can see even just by quickly scrolling through, this volume includes not only Walden, complete, but the best-of-the-best of his other writings, including excerpts from his three other book-length works, complete versions of other smaller works, numerous essays on a variety of subjects, poetry, along with biographies, analysis and criticism, and a wonderful overview of all the other major American Transcendentalist writers (Emerson, Fuller, Channing, Alcott, and others).
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Version 1.12
Table of Contents
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Foreword
— by Ann M. Woodlief, PhD
Publisher’s Preface & Acknowledgements
— by Ron Koster
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Walden
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Introductory Note to the 1906 Edition
The Structure, Language & Rhetoric of Walden
— by Ann M. Woodlief, PhD
[Title Page & Epigraph]
Economy
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Reading
Sounds
Solitude
Visitors
The Bean Field
The Village
The Ponds
Baker Farm
Higher Laws
Brute Neighbors
Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors
Winter Animals
The Pond in Winter
Spring
Conclusion
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Sauntering
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Walking
A Walk to Wachusett
Night & Moonlight
A Winter Walk
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Wandering
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“Ktaadn” (from The Maine Woods)
“The Wellfleet Oysterman” (from Cape Cod)
A Yankee in Canada
- Concord to Montreal
- Quebec and Montmorenci
- St. Anne
- The Walls of Quebec
- The Scenery of Quebec; and the River St. Lawrence
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Nature
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Wild Apples
Autumnal Tints
The Succession of Forest Trees
Natural History of Massachusetts
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Anti-Slavery & Reform
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Resistance to Civil Government [“Civil Disobedience”]
Slavery in Massachusetts
A Plea for Captain John Brown
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Life, Love & Human Relations
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Life Without Principle
“Friendship” (excerpt from A Week on the Concord & Merrimack Rivers)
Love
Chastity & Sensuality
The Landlord
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Poetry
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The Aurora of Guido
Conscience
Delay
The Departure
Ding Dong
Epitaph On The World
The Fall Of The Leaf
The Funeral Bell
Greece
I Knew A Man By Sight
Independence
Inspiration
The Inward Morning
Mission
The Moon
My Life Has Been The Poem
Nature
Omnipresence
On Fields O’er Which The Reaper’s Hand Has Passed
Pilgrims
Poverty
Pray to What Earth
Prayer
Rumors From An Æolian Harp
The Summer Rain
The Thaw
They Who Prepare My Evening Meal Below
To A Stray Fowl
To My Brother
A Winter Scene
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About Henry
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The Wellfleet Penman: Thoreau in Colour
— by Ron Koster
Thoreau: A Biography for Children
— by Mary Stoyell Stimpson
Thoreau: A Little Journey Home
— by Elbert Hubbard
Memories of Thoreau
— as related by Franklin B. Sanborn
The Forester
— by Amos Bronson Alcott
Thoreau’s Last Letter
— as related by Franklin B. Sanborn
Eulogy
— by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry Thoreau as Remembered by a Young Friend
— by Edward Emerson
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Analysis & Criticism
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How to Live: Mr. Thoreau’s Example
— from THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE
The Vagabond in Literature: Henry D. Thoreau
— by Arthur Rickett
Henry David Thoreau: His Character and Opinions
— by Robert Louis Stevenson
Henry David Thoreau: A Critical Study
— by Mark Van Doren
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Beyond Thoreau
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Biographical Sketch
— by Ann M. Woodlief
Divinity School Address
Nature
Transcendental Bible
— by Lidian Emerson
Margaret Fuller
Biographical Sketch
— by Ann M. Woodlief
The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women.
A Short Essay on Critics
Rev. William Ellery Channing
Biographical Sketch
— by Ann M. Woodlief
Likeness to God
Theodore Parker
Biographical Sketch
— by Ann M. Woodlief
The Transient and Permanent in Christianity
Transcendentalism
Amos Bronson Alcott
Biographical Sketch
— by Amy Belding Brown
Maxims on Education
Jones Very
Biographical Sketch
— by Bryan Hileman
Selected Poetry
[William] Ellery Channing
Biographical Sketch
— by Ann M. Woodlief
Selected Poetry
Christopher Pearse Cranch
Biographical Sketch
— by Ann M. Woodlief
Selected Poetry
Gallery of Paintings
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman and Transcendentalism
— by Ann M. Woodlief
Selected Poetry
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Postscript
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Sing Along with Henry!
— by Ron Koster
- Sheet Music for Tom Bowling
- Lyrics for Tom Bowling
Cataloguing & Copyright
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List of Illustrations
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Frontispiece/Opening Illustration
Digital artwork by Psymon, adapted from the illustration used on the title page for the first edition of Walden.
Title page for Walden
Title page for the first edition of Walden, as published by Ticknor & Fields in 1854.
Map of Walden Pond & Surrounding Area
Digital artwork by Psymon, created from a topographic map of the area (circa 1943-1948), including Walden Pond, Flint’s (Sandy) Pond, and the town of Concord.
Walden Pond A Reduced Plan
Thoreau’s 1846 map/survey of the pond, as reproduced in the first edition of Walden.
Scarlet Oak Leaf
The engraving which Thoreau included with the first publication of Autumnal Tints.
Oil Portrait of Capt John Brown (1859)
“Treason!” Broadside from 1859
Thoreau in 1856
Daguerreotype by Benjamin D. Maxham.
Thoreau in 1854
Crayon drawing by Samuel Worcester Rowse.
Thoreau in 1861
Ambrotype by E.S. Dunshee.
Beach Bluffs at Cape Cod
Photo by Herbert W. Gleason.
The Wellfleet Penman
Digital artwork by Psymon of Thoreau in colour.
Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Portrait of Margaret Fuller
Portrait of Rev. William Ellery Channing
Portrait of Theodore Parker
Portrait of Amos Bronson Alcott
Portrait of Jones Very
Portrait of Ellery Channing
Portrait of Christopher Pearse Cranch
“Transparent Eyeball” caricature by Christopher Pearse Cranch
Gallery of Paintings by Christopher Pearse Cranch
- The U.S. Capitol (1840)
- Man with Two Cows (1844)
- Autumn Landscape with Boy Fishing (1845)
- Tivoli, East of Rome (1849)
- Landscape with Fishermen and Artist Sketching (1850)
- View on the Hudson (circa 1851)
- Niagara American Falls (1853)
- View on the Hudson (1856)
- Venice (1860)
- Landscape with Couple Boating (1861)
- The Burning of Barnum’s Museum (1865)
- The Washington Oak, Denning’s Point (1867)
- Landscape by the Sea (1879)
- McIntyre Mountain (1885)
Portrait of Walt Whitman
Portrait of John Thoreau
Music for Tom Bowling
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