Thoreau-ly Well-Read

Not a lot to say about this one. If you like this sort of thing, then you'll like this thing.
Henry David Thoreau doesn't need me to pump him up. Howard Mumford Jones was a professor of English at Harvard in the mid 20th century and pretty much sounds as you would expect a mid-20th century Harvard English professor to sound.

One of his more well-known quotes is "While it is true that we in this nation remain free to be idiotic, it does not necessarily follow that we must be idiotic in order to be free!" [February 1954 dedicatory address at the opening of an addition to the University of Wisconsin's Memorial Library, entitled "Books and the Independent Mind."]


Howard Mumford Jones Reads Walden

Spoken Arts ‎– SA 832   1962


A1 Economy

A2 What I Lived For

B1 The Ponds

B2 Brute Neighbors

B3 Spring

B4 Conclusion