Kathleen Coyne Kelly is professor of English at Northeastern University and editor of The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies. She is the author of the Thoreau-inspired Field Notebook, published by the Thoreau Society, and the textbook Reading to Write: A Practical Rhetoric, as well as Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages and A. S. Byatt: A Study. Her work on Thoreau has appeared in NEQ: New England Quarterly, the Thoreau Society Bulletin, The Concord Saunterer, and the edited volume Henry David Thoreau in Context.

“In this impressive new book, each chapter offers an approach to Thoreau studies that centers on a drawing and leads into a rich avenue of inquiry that draws on an expansive range of scholarship. Kathleen Coyne Kelly has the potential to reshape how we read Thoreau. No one has made such a comprehensive case for the importance of his drawings.” - John J. Kucich, author of Unsettling Thoreau: Native Americans, Settler Colonialism, and the Power of Place “Kelly invites us to re-think the Thoreau we think we know, even for those of us who think we know him quite well. At once witty, smart, and deeply informed, Kelly’s tour through Thoreau’s drawings takes us on an historical, literary, and environmental adventure that reveals a more nuanced and complex Thoreau. Her prose is clear, concise, and smart—at times humorous, at times personal, at times deeply moving. Kelly’s treatment of the Journal drawings is unlike any book I’ve encountered on Thoreau.” - Rochelle Johnson, author of Passions for Nature: Nineteenth Century America’s Aesthetics of Alienation and past president of the Thoreau Society

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceOn the DrawingsQuoting ThoreauAbbreviationsFrequently Used SourcesPart I. Introduction: "A pencil is one of the best eyes"I. On Drawing: "rude outline drawings"II. The Journal: "My journal should be a record of my love"III. The Art and Science of Illustration: "from year to year we look at Nature with new eyes"Part II. The Drawings1. November 26, 1850: "Their spear very serviceable" / Penobscot Artifacts2. May 3, 1852: "Moon in the south" / Moonlit Landscape3. July 8, 1852: "Remarkable moth" / Luna Moth4. December 2, 1852: "We saw a mink a slender black" / Mink5. May 15, 1853: "What are those large conical-shaped fungi" / Fungi6. November 23, 1853: "A harrow of geese" / Geese Overhead7. August 16, 1854: "The distinct shadow of our shadows" / Two Men in a Boat8. August 19, 1854: "The inner scales of a tortoise" / A Tortoise's Scute9. August 23, 1854: "The middle of G's swamp"; February 3, 1860: "40 paces to an inch" / Swamped10. February 10, 1856: "His tracks when running" / Fox Tracks11. September 1856: "Zig-zag thus" / A panther's tooth12. April 28, 1858: "I see the fish-hawk again" / Osprey13. September 29, 1858: "The form of the leaf too is peculiar" / Nightshade14. November 11, 1858: "The tail-coverts of the young hen hawk" and "The scarlet oak leaf!" / The Feather and the Leaf15. November 26, 1858: "Have young breams transverse bars?" / Piscine Dabblings16. March 13, 1859: "I go to get one more sight of the old house" / Hunt House17. July 9, 1859: "A phalanx of bullrushes" / The Meanders of the Sudbury18. February 8, 1860: "The softened ice–I admire the markings in it" / Ice Formations: Toward a Taxonomy19. May 30, 1860: "A little shed, under which I stood dry" / A Self-Portrait20. November 17, 1860: "They lotted it off in this wise" / The Heywood LotPart III. CodaIV. Thoreau's RoosterNotesIndex

Kathleen Coyne Kelly is professor of English at Northeastern University and editor of The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies. She is the author of the Thoreau-inspired Field Notebook, published by the Thoreau Society, and the textbook Reading to Write: A Practical Rhetoric, as well as Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages and A. S. Byatt: A Study. Her work on Thoreau has appeared in NEQ: New England Quarterly, the Thoreau Society Bulletin, The Concord Saunterer, and the edited volume Henry David Thoreau in Context.

“In this impressive new book, each chapter offers an approach to Thoreau studies that centers on a drawing and leads into a rich avenue of inquiry that draws on an expansive range of scholarship. Kathleen Coyne Kelly has the potential to reshape how we read Thoreau. No one has made such a comprehensive case for the importance of his drawings.” - John J. Kucich, author of Unsettling Thoreau: Native Americans, Settler Colonialism, and the Power of Place “Kelly invites us to re-think the Thoreau we think we know, even for those of us who think we know him quite well. At once witty, smart, and deeply informed, Kelly’s tour through Thoreau’s drawings takes us on an historical, literary, and environmental adventure that reveals a more nuanced and complex Thoreau. Her prose is clear, concise, and smart—at times humorous, at times personal, at times deeply moving. Kelly’s treatment of the Journal drawings is unlike any book I’ve encountered on Thoreau.” - Rochelle Johnson, author of Passions for Nature: Nineteenth Century America’s Aesthetics of Alienation and past president of the Thoreau Society

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceOn the DrawingsQuoting ThoreauAbbreviationsFrequently Used SourcesPart I. Introduction: "A pencil is one of the best eyes"I. On Drawing: "rude outline drawings"II. The Journal: "My journal should be a record of my love"III. The Art and Science of Illustration: "from year to year we look at Nature with new eyes"Part II. The Drawings1. November 26, 1850: "Their spear very serviceable" / Penobscot Artifacts2. May 3, 1852: "Moon in the south" / Moonlit Landscape3. July 8, 1852: "Remarkable moth" / Luna Moth4. December 2, 1852: "We saw a mink a slender black" / Mink5. May 15, 1853: "What are those large conical-shaped fungi" / Fungi6. November 23, 1853: "A harrow of geese" / Geese Overhead7. August 16, 1854: "The distinct shadow of our shadows" / Two Men in a Boat8. August 19, 1854: "The inner scales of a tortoise" / A Tortoise's Scute9. August 23, 1854: "The middle of G's swamp"; February 3, 1860: "40 paces to an inch" / Swamped10. February 10, 1856: "His tracks when running" / Fox Tracks11. September 1856: "Zig-zag thus" / A panther's tooth12. April 28, 1858: "I see the fish-hawk again" / Osprey13. September 29, 1858: "The form of the leaf too is peculiar" / Nightshade14. November 11, 1858: "The tail-coverts of the young hen hawk" and "The scarlet oak leaf!" / The Feather and the Leaf15. November 26, 1858: "Have young breams transverse bars?" / Piscine Dabblings16. March 13, 1859: "I go to get one more sight of the old house" / Hunt House17. July 9, 1859: "A phalanx of bullrushes" / The Meanders of the Sudbury18. February 8, 1860: "The softened ice–I admire the markings in it" / Ice Formations: Toward a Taxonomy19. May 30, 1860: "A little shed, under which I stood dry" / A Self-Portrait20. November 17, 1860: "They lotted it off in this wise" / The Heywood LotPart III. CodaIV. Thoreau's RoosterNotesIndex

Kathleen Coyne Kelly is professor of English at Northeastern University and editor of The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies. She is the author of the Thoreau-inspired Field Notebook, published by the Thoreau Society, and the textbook Reading to Write: A Practical Rhetoric, as well as Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages and A. S. Byatt: A Study. Her work on Thoreau has appeared in NEQ: New England Quarterly, the Thoreau Society Bulletin, The Concord Saunterer, and the edited volume Henry David Thoreau in Context.

“In this impressive new book, each chapter offers an approach to Thoreau studies that centers on a drawing and leads into a rich avenue of inquiry that draws on an expansive range of scholarship. Kathleen Coyne Kelly has the potential to reshape how we read Thoreau. No one has made such a comprehensive case for the importance of his drawings.” - John J. Kucich, author of Unsettling Thoreau: Native Americans, Settler Colonialism, and the Power of Place “Kelly invites us to re-think the Thoreau we think we know, even for those of us who think we know him quite well. At once witty, smart, and deeply informed, Kelly’s tour through Thoreau’s drawings takes us on an historical, literary, and environmental adventure that reveals a more nuanced and complex Thoreau. Her prose is clear, concise, and smart—at times humorous, at times personal, at times deeply moving. Kelly’s treatment of the Journal drawings is unlike any book I’ve encountered on Thoreau.” - Rochelle Johnson, author of Passions for Nature: Nineteenth Century America’s Aesthetics of Alienation and past president of the Thoreau Society

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceOn the DrawingsQuoting ThoreauAbbreviationsFrequently Used SourcesPart I. Introduction: "A pencil is one of the best eyes"I. On Drawing: "rude outline drawings"II. The Journal: "My journal should be a record of my love"III. The Art and Science of Illustration: "from year to year we look at Nature with new eyes"Part II. The Drawings1. November 26, 1850: "Their spear very serviceable" / Penobscot Artifacts2. May 3, 1852: "Moon in the south" / Moonlit Landscape3. July 8, 1852: "Remarkable moth" / Luna Moth4. December 2, 1852: "We saw a mink a slender black" / Mink5. May 15, 1853: "What are those large conical-shaped fungi" / Fungi6. November 23, 1853: "A harrow of geese" / Geese Overhead7. August 16, 1854: "The distinct shadow of our shadows" / Two Men in a Boat8. August 19, 1854: "The inner scales of a tortoise" / A Tortoise's Scute9. August 23, 1854: "The middle of G's swamp"; February 3, 1860: "40 paces to an inch" / Swamped10. February 10, 1856: "His tracks when running" / Fox Tracks11. September 1856: "Zig-zag thus" / A panther's tooth12. April 28, 1858: "I see the fish-hawk again" / Osprey13. September 29, 1858: "The form of the leaf too is peculiar" / Nightshade14. November 11, 1858: "The tail-coverts of the young hen hawk" and "The scarlet oak leaf!" / The Feather and the Leaf15. November 26, 1858: "Have young breams transverse bars?" / Piscine Dabblings16. March 13, 1859: "I go to get one more sight of the old house" / Hunt House17. July 9, 1859: "A phalanx of bullrushes" / The Meanders of the Sudbury18. February 8, 1860: "The softened ice–I admire the markings in it" / Ice Formations: Toward a Taxonomy19. May 30, 1860: "A little shed, under which I stood dry" / A Self-Portrait20. November 17, 1860: "They lotted it off in this wise" / The Heywood LotPart III. CodaIV. Thoreau's RoosterNotesIndex