In part 2 of this interview, Aton asks Walter Harding some questions about how he began his career as a Thoreauvian. Harding describes his feeling of being "home at last" when he finally read Thoreau
In the beginning of this interview with Walter Harding, Jim Aton (a Geneseo student at the time) describes the various works of Harding related to Thoreau. He then goes on to explain the similarities between Harding and Thoreau while introducing the…
Walter Harding reviews Erskine Caldwell's book. He looks favorably on it, but then digs further into Caldwell as a writer and seems to disapprove because of Caldwell’s use of sex appeal. He claims that Caldwell corrupted himself after he reached…
Walter Harding reviews Truman Nelson's book, says, “Those who are looking for a romance, for an evening’s escape, will be disappointed. It is a novel, not to make one emote but to make one think.” Commends it as a “plea for the return of the…
Review of Joseph Wood Krutch's book Henry David Thoreau, in which he applauds Krutch’s work for emphasizing Thoreau’s essential happiness and basically capturing Thoreau’s thought.