¹ Moller was defending Thoreau from the attacks of Perry Miller in particular, in his Consciousness in Concord: The Text of Thoreau's Hitherto “Lost Journal” (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958).Google Scholar

² In view of Michael Meyer's discussion of the history of the Thoreau canon in Several More Lives to Live: Thoreau's Political Reputation in America (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1977)Google Scholar, it is interesting that few recent works on Thoreau give prominent place to these texts, which were so emphasized in the 1960s.

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