So I lost interest after reading about Fuller, Emerson and Douglas in the Transcendental 2021 group . I got the Jones Very biography and poems, but just didn't read them. I ended up reading Dante , and Rosewater by Tade Thompson . Went off into Dickinson instead of The Hermaphrodite . I read This is Shakespeare . And The Possibility of an Island . It's so hard for me because there is a part of me that wants to read it all. I still want to go off on the Romantics and Dickenson. But it's time for a reread of Walden. I got down to Willow Pond quite often, went down today and fantasize that I'm Thoreau. Even though Thoreau is depicted as a bit disingenuous about being independent in the TV show Dickinson , I don't think that show is historically accurate even if it's maybe emotionally accurate on some level. Below is my old copy I read in college, that's I'm going to inch my way through. I hate Signet classics, but it seems I have a few. From his journal: ...