The Art of Solitude. Selected Writings

Introduction
KAMO NO CHOMEI 'Notes from a Ten Feet Square Hut'
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE On Solitude
RENE DESCARTES from 'Of the things of which we may
doubt'
ALEXANDER POPE 'Ode on Solitude'
SAMUEL JOHNSON 'Solitude not eligible'
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU from The Reveries of a
Solitary Walker
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 'I wandered lonely as a
Cloud'
JOHN KEATS 'O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell'
EDGAR ALLAN POE 'The Man of the Crowd'
RALPH WALDO EMERSON 'Self-Reliance'
HENRY DAVID THOREAU 'Solitude', from Walden
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON 'The Solitude of Self'
EMILY DICKINSON 'There is a solitude of space'
ALICE MEYNELL 'Solitude'
VIRGINIA WOOLF from A Room of One's Own