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Praise for Solid Seasons Cramer (The Quotable Thoreau) intelligently examines the bond between two famous authors in an admirable volume that mixes biography with selections of their writing . . . The words offer inquisitive readers encouragement to refresh their acquaintance with Emerson and Thoreau through this 'new view of an old story.' --Publishers Weekly Editor of many works by Emerson and Thoreau and curator of collections at the Walden Woods Project's Thoreau Institute, Cramer brings both authority and sensitivity to his biographical overview and to a judicious selection of excerpts from the men's prolific writings . . . A deeply sympathetic dual biography. --Kirkus Reviews Praise for I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau The Journal, even more than Walden or the essays 'Civil Disobedience' and 'A Life Without Principle, ' has come to look like [Thoreau's] most significant contribution to American literature. Thanks to the judicious editing of Jeffrey S. Cramer, who has whittled down the 39 manuscript volumes to 500 pages, we now have the first broadly representative selection from the Journal to appear in 40 years. --The Guardian Praise for Essays by Henry D. Thoreau: A Fully Annotated Edition The cross-references that Cramer includes among his annotations are particularly valuable... For anyone who wants to trace Thoreau's references to phenomena or the evolution of his ideas, these sorts of annotations are not only invaluable but relatively difficult to find in Thoreau studies. All readers of Thoreau are thus well served by Cramer. --Review 19 Praise for Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition A handsome, 'all-things-Walden' edition. --Boston Globe Cramer's side notes are like short, illuminating conversations. --USA Today Cramer's notes are immensely useful. His edition of Walden will be a boon to ordinary readers and scholars alike. --Denis Donoghue, author of Speaking of Beauty Thoreau's masterpiece--here freshly refurbished by Jeffrey S. Cramer--speaks to our material and spiritual condition as powerfully as on the day it first appeared. Now, more than ever, Walden is our indispensable American book. --Alan D. Hodder, Professor of Comparative Religion, Hampshire College Jeffrey Cramer's Walden is the most accurate and readable text of Thoreau's masterpiece. Cramer's version now replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great American book. --Joel Porte, author of Consciousness and Culture: Emerson and Thoreau Reviewed Praise for Robert Frost Among His Poems Indispensable for Frost studies. --Choice In the past seven years--indeed in this decade--we have seen the appearance of major critical studies on Frost... ground-breaking studies by... Jeffrey Cramer. --Earl J. Wilcox, The Robert Frost Review Cramer's hugely helpful book meticulously describes the literary and biographical context in which individual poems were written. --Diane Rehm Blog

Praise for I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau The Journal, even more than Walden or the essays Civil Disobedience and A Life Without Principle, has come to look like [Thoreau's] most significant contribution to American literature. Thanks to the judicious editing of Jeffrey S Cramer, who has whittled down the 39 manuscript volumes to 500 pages, we now have the first broadly representative selection from the Journal to appear in 40 years. --The Guardian Praise for Essays by Henry D. Thoreau: A Fully Annotated Edition The cross-references that Cramer includes among his annotations are particularly valuable... For anyone who wants to trace Thoreau's references to phenomena or the evolution of his ideas, these sorts of annotations are not only invaluable but relatively difficult to find in Thoreau studies. All readers of Thoreau are thus well served by Cramer. --Review 19 Praise for Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition A handsome, 'all-things-Walden' edition --Boston Globe Cramer's side notes are like short, illuminating conversations. --USA Today Cramer's notes are immensely useful. His edition of Walden will be a boon to ordinary readers and scholars alike. --Denis Donoghue, author of Speaking of Beauty Thoreau's masterpiece--here freshly refurbished by Jeffrey S. Cramer--speaks to our material and spiritual condition as powerfully as on the day it first appeared. Now, more than ever, Walden is our indispensable American book. --Alan D. Hodder, Professor of Comparative Religion, Hampshire College Jeffrey Cramer's Walden is the most accurate and readable text of Thoreau's masterpiece. Cramer's version now replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great American book. --Joel Porte, author of Consciousness and Culture: Emerson and Thoreau Reviewed Praise for Robert Frost Among His Poems Indispensable for Frost studies. --Choice In the past seven years--indeed in this decade--we have seen the appearance of major critical studies on Frost... ground-breaking studies by... Jeffrey Cramer. --Earl J. Wilcox, The Robert Frost Review Cramer's hugely helpful book meticulously describes the literary and biographical context in which individual poems were written. --Diane Rehm Blog

Praise for Solid Seasons Cramer's lucid, spare writing and deep knowledge join one quotation to the next without seeming effort. The book's two primary characters become familiars, each one easily approached, often via the observation of the other. Cramer has a knack for choosing and integrating his subjects' words, and from that you get sentences and stories that are easy walking. That sums to a wonderful read, both for the general reader interested in Emerson and Thoreau, and for those who feel themselves academic family to these two famous 19th-century thinkers and writers. --Sandy Stott, The Roost The abiding strength of the tie between the two writers emerges as an animating presence in both men's journals and correspondence, which Cramer mines for quotations that allow each writer to give his own unmediated account of their friendship . . . An illuminating history of an exceptional friendship. --Booklist (starred review) Cramer (The Quotable Thoreau) intelligently examines the bond between two famous authors in an admirable volume that mixes biography with selections of their writing . . . The words offer inquisitive readers encouragement to refresh their acquaintance with Emerson and Thoreau through this 'new view of an old story.' --Publishers Weekly Editor of many works by Emerson and Thoreau and curator of collections at the Walden Woods Project's Thoreau Institute, Cramer brings both authority and sensitivity to his biographical overview and to a judicious selection of excerpts from the men's prolific writings . . . A deeply sympathetic dual biography. --Kirkus Reviews Praise for I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau The Journal, even more than Walden or the essays 'Civil Disobedience' and 'A Life Without Principle, ' has come to look like [Thoreau's] most significant contribution to American literature. Thanks to the judicious editing of Jeffrey S. Cramer, who has whittled down the 39 manuscript volumes to 500 pages, we now have the first broadly representative selection from the Journal to appear in 40 years. --The Guardian Praise for Essays by Henry D. Thoreau: A Fully Annotated Edition The cross-references that Cramer includes among his annotations are particularly valuable... For anyone who wants to trace Thoreau's references to phenomena or the evolution of his ideas, these sorts of annotations are not only invaluable but relatively difficult to find in Thoreau studies. All readers of Thoreau are thus well served by Cramer. --Review 19 Praise for Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition A handsome, 'all-things-Walden' edition. --Boston Globe Cramer's side notes are like short, illuminating conversations. --USA Today Cramer's notes are immensely useful. His edition of Walden will be a boon to ordinary readers and scholars alike. --Denis Donoghue, author of Speaking of Beauty Thoreau's masterpiece--here freshly refurbished by Jeffrey S. Cramer--speaks to our material and spiritual condition as powerfully as on the day it first appeared. Now, more than ever, Walden is our indispensable American book. --Alan D. Hodder, Professor of Comparative Religion, Hampshire College Jeffrey Cramer's Walden is the most accurate and readable text of Thoreau's masterpiece. Cramer's version now replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great American book. --Joel Porte, author of Consciousness and Culture: Emerson and Thoreau Reviewed Praise for Robert Frost Among His Poems Indispensable for Frost studies. --Choice In the past seven years--indeed in this decade--we have seen the appearance of major critical studies on Frost... ground-breaking studies by... Jeffrey Cramer. --Earl J. Wilcox, The Robert Frost Review Cramer's hugely helpful book meticulously describes the literary and biographical context in which individual poems were written. --Diane Rehm Blog

Praise for I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau The Journal, even more than Walden or the essays 'Civil Disobedience' and 'A Life Without Principle, ' has come to look like [Thoreau's] most significant contribution to American literature. Thanks to the judicious editing of Jeffrey S. Cramer, who has whittled down the 39 manuscript volumes to 500 pages, we now have the first broadly representative selection from the Journal to appear in 40 years. --The Guardian Praise for Essays by Henry D. Thoreau: A Fully Annotated Edition The cross-references that Cramer includes among his annotations are particularly valuable... For anyone who wants to trace Thoreau's references to phenomena or the evolution of his ideas, these sorts of annotations are not only invaluable but relatively difficult to find in Thoreau studies. All readers of Thoreau are thus well served by Cramer. --Review 19 Praise for Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition A handsome, 'all-things-Walden' edition --Boston Globe Cramer's side notes are like short, illuminating conversations. --USA Today Cramer's notes are immensely useful. His edition of Walden will be a boon to ordinary readers and scholars alike. --Denis Donoghue, author of Speaking of Beauty Thoreau's masterpiece--here freshly refurbished by Jeffrey S. Cramer--speaks to our material and spiritual condition as powerfully as on the day it first appeared. Now, more than ever, Walden is our indispensable American book. --Alan D. Hodder, Professor of Comparative Religion, Hampshire College Jeffrey Cramer's Walden is the most accurate and readable text of Thoreau's masterpiece. Cramer's version now replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great American book. --Joel Porte, author of Consciousness and Culture: Emerson and Thoreau Reviewed Praise for Robert Frost Among His Poems Indispensable for Frost studies. --Choice In the past seven years--indeed in this decade--we have seen the appearance of major critical studies on Frost... ground-breaking studies by... Jeffrey Cramer. --Earl J. Wilcox, The Robert Frost Review Cramer's hugely helpful book meticulously describes the literary and biographical context in which individual poems were written. --Diane Rehm Blog

Praise for Solid Seasons Cramer (The Quotable Thoreau) intelligently examines the bond between two famous authors in an admirable volume that mixes biography with selections of their writing . . . The words offer inquisitive readers encouragement to refresh their acquaintance with Emerson and Thoreau through this 'new view of an old story.' --Publishers Weekly Editor of many works by Emerson and Thoreau and curator of collections at the Walden Woods Project's Thoreau Institute, Cramer brings both authority and sensitivity to his biographical overview and to a judicious selection of excerpts from the men's prolific writings . . . A deeply sympathetic dual biography. --Kirkus Reviews Praise for I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau The Journal, even more than Walden or the essays 'Civil Disobedience' and 'A Life Without Principle, ' has come to look like [Thoreau's] most significant contribution to American literature. Thanks to the judicious editing of Jeffrey S. Cramer, who has whittled down the 39 manuscript volumes to 500 pages, we now have the first broadly representative selection from the Journal to appear in 40 years. --The Guardian Praise for Essays by Henry D. Thoreau: A Fully Annotated Edition The cross-references that Cramer includes among his annotations are particularly valuable... For anyone who wants to trace Thoreau's references to phenomena or the evolution of his ideas, these sorts of annotations are not only invaluable but relatively difficult to find in Thoreau studies. All readers of Thoreau are thus well served by Cramer. --Review 19 Praise for Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition A handsome, 'all-things-Walden' edition --Boston Globe Cramer's side notes are like short, illuminating conversations. --USA Today Cramer's notes are immensely useful. His edition of Walden will be a boon to ordinary readers and scholars alike. --Denis Donoghue, author of Speaking of Beauty Thoreau's masterpiece--here freshly refurbished by Jeffrey S. Cramer--speaks to our material and spiritual condition as powerfully as on the day it first appeared. Now, more than ever, Walden is our indispensable American book. --Alan D. Hodder, Professor of Comparative Religion, Hampshire College Jeffrey Cramer's Walden is the most accurate and readable text of Thoreau's masterpiece. Cramer's version now replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great American book. --Joel Porte, author of Consciousness and Culture: Emerson and Thoreau Reviewed Praise for Robert Frost Among His Poems Indispensable for Frost studies. --Choice In the past seven years--indeed in this decade--we have seen the appearance of major critical studies on Frost... ground-breaking studies by... Jeffrey Cramer. --Earl J. Wilcox, The Robert Frost Review Cramer's hugely helpful book meticulously describes the literary and biographical context in which individual poems were written. --Diane Rehm Blog

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Jeffrey S. Cramer is the editor of Walden- A Fully Annotated Edition, winner of a 2004 National Outdoor Book Award, and The Quotable Thoreau, recipient of an Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in Humanities. In 2017, Cramer was the historical consultant for the Ken Burns-produced documentary Walden, created for the Walden Pond State Reservation during the Thoreau Bicentennial. Cramer is the curator of collections at the Walden Woods Project's Thoreau Institute Library. He lives in Maynard, Massachusetts.

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