Henry David Thoreau Bibliography

A Plea for Captain John Brown is an eloquent defense of the radical abolitionist, who with twenty-one other men seized the federal armory at Harper's Ferry.

A Walk to Wachusett is an essay about a journey Thoreau took with Richard Fuller, from Concord to the summit of Mount Wachusett located in Princeton, Massachusetts.

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is the narrative of a boating trip that Thoreau took with his brother in 1839 from Concord, Massachusetts, to Concord, New Hampshire.

A Winter Walk is an essay that deals with relationship with nature. It describes a walk taken by Thoreau during the winter.

A Yankee in Canada is a five-part description of Thoreau's 1850 trip to Canada: Concord to Montreal, Quebec and Montmorenci, St Anne...

Thoreau's Remarks After the Death of John Brown is a speech given by Thoreau on 2 December 1859 at the time of John Brown's execution.

All Things Are Current Found - a poem by Henry David Thoreau.

Aulus Persius Flaccus is a Thoreau's essay about Persius, in full Aulus Persius Flaccus (AD 34-62), a Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin.

Autumnal Tints is Thoreau classic essay about nature. Autumnal Tints describes the colors of New England fall.

Away! away! away! away!

Cape Cod is Thoreau's sunniest, happiest book. It describes several trips Thoreau made to Cape Cod between 1849 and 1855.

Civil Disobedience or Resistance to Civil Government is an essay about the relationships between individual citizens and their government.

Conscience - a poem by Henry David Thoreau.

Dark Ages is an essay by Henry D. Thoreau first published in The Dial 1843.

Letters of Emerson and Thoreau from 1843. Letters I to VI.

Letters of Emerson and Thoreau from 1843. Letters VII to XI.

Letters of Emerson and Thoreau from 1843. Letters XI to XVI.

Epitaph On The World - a poem by Henry David Thoreau

Free Love - a poem by Henry David Thoreau

Friendship - a poem by Henry David Thoreau

Herald of Freedom is an essay that praise 'Herald of Freedom', the journal of the New England Anti-Slavery Society and its editor, Nathaniel P. Rogers.

I Am A Parcel Of Vain Striving Tied - a poem by Henry David Thoreau

I am the autumnal sun - a poem by Henry David Thoreau

I Knew A Man By Sight - a poem by Henry David Thoreau

Indeed, indeed, I cannot tell - a poem by Henry David Thoreau

Inspiration - a poem by Henry David Thoreau

Let such pure hate still underprop - a poem by Henry David Thoreau

Life Without Principle is an essay in which Thoreau condemns the American social system and job ladder.

Low-Anchored Cloud [Mist] - a poem by Henry David Thoreau

Natural History of Massachusetts is a half book review, half natural history essay, consisting of revised passages from Thoreau's journal.

Night and Moonlight is an essay concerned with the observations of Thoreau as a naturalist.

Paradise (to be) Regained is an essay that takes the form of a review of John Adolphus Etzlers book The Paradise within the Reach of all Men, without Labor, by Powers of Nature and Machinery.

Pray to What Earth - a poem by Henry David Thoreau.

Prayer - a poem by Henry David Thoreau.

Reform and the Reformers is an essay that reflects Thoreau's frustration with the multitude of reformers — prohibitionists, utopian communists, free love advocates, religious revivalists...

Rumors from an Aeolian Harp - a poem by Henry David Thoreau.

Sic Vita - a poem by Henry David Thoreau.

Sir Walter Raleigh is an essay in which Thoreau praises Sir Walter Raleigh as a flawed but heroic figure, but who failed to use his heroic character to heroic ends.

Slavery in Massachusetts is an essay based on a speech Thoreau gave at an anti-slavery rally at on July 4, 1854, after the reenslavement in Boston, Massachusetts of fugitive slave Anthony Burns.

Smoke - a poem by Henry David Thoreau.

Sympathy - a poem by Henry David Thoreau.

The Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence: Letters of Emerson and Thoreau from the 1840’s and 1850’s. Letters I-V (1847).

The Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence: Letters of Emerson and Thoreau from the 1840’s and 1850’s. Letters I-V (1848).

The Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence: Letters of Emerson and Thoreau from the 1840’s and 1850’s. Letters XI-XV (1848-1856).

The Highland Light is one of Thoreau's Cape Cod essays. The Highland Light is a lighthouse located in Truro, Massachusetts.

The Inward Morning - a poem by Henry David Thoreau.

The Landlord is an essay published in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (1843).

The Last Days of John Brown is an essay that praised the executed abolitionist militia leader John Brown (written in 1860).

The Maine Woods is an account of three trips taken by boat and canoe; Ktaadn in 1846, Chesuncook in 1853 and Allegash and East Branch in 1857.

The Moon - a poem by Henry David Thoreau

The Poet’s Delay - a poem by Henry David Thoreau.

The Service is an essay partly on the subject of non-resistance and pacifist writers in which Thoreau warns that pacifism can be a temptation to passivity.

The Succession of Forest Trees is an essay in which Thoreau analyzes aspects of forest ecology and urges farmers to plant trees in natural patterns of succession.

The Summer Rain - a poem by Henry David Thoreau.

They Who Prepare my Evening Meal Below - a poem by Henry David Thoreau.

Thomas Carlyle and His Works is an essay in which Thoreau praises the writings of Thomas Carlyle, a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian.

Though All the Fates - a poem by Henry David Thoreau.

Walden; or, Life in the Woods is a nonfiction book about Thoreau's experience at Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, from July 4, 1845, to September 6, 1847.

Walking is an essay on experiencing the natural world.

Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum is a letter to the editor published in The Liberator in 1845 that praised the abolitionist lecturer Wendell Phillips.

Wild Apples is an essay bemoaning the destruction of indigenous and wild apple species.

Within the Circuit of This Plodding Life - a poem by Henry David Thoreau.