![]() Kurtz is one o the most straightforward analyses of W’s style. For a discussion of the organic structure of W, see Lane (1960). Headley (New York, 1849), which did not appear until after T had used the subtitle in an advertisement for W in the back pages of the first edition of A Week. For a comprehensive study of the types of books on which T based the structure of W, see Linck Johnson. Williams, “Our Cabin or, Life in the Woods” in the October 1843 American Pioneer (DeMott), but not from the then popular The Adirondack or Life in the Woods, by J.T. ![]() T could have derived the subtitle from his friend Charles Lane’s essay “Life in the Woods” in the Dial (IV, 1844, 415) or from John S. Paul (75) suggests that T may have dropped the subtitle because he feared his audience was taking it too literally and thus missing the more important philosophy permeating the book. They complied with this request, although it has rarely been followed since. ![]() ![]() Although the first edition gives the title Walden or, Life in the Woods, on March 4, 1862, two months before he died, T wrote to his publishers, Ticknor & Fields, asking them to omit the subtitle in a new edition. ![]()
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