ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL
An Anthropology of eremitism
Epictetus: What is Solitude?
Epictetus: Enchiridion, or, Manual
Desert Fathers and Mothers on solitude
Acedia, bane of solitaries
Evagrius Ponticus: Asceticism & Solitary Life
Aelred of Rievaulx's Rule for a Solitary
William of St. Thierry's Eremitical Anthropology (article review)
Ancrene Wisse: medieval guide for anchoresses
Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Taqzan
Gelassenheit (releasement) in Meister Eckhart
Nil Sorsky's Rule for Hermits: hesychasm in Russia

MODERN
Francesco Petrarch's The Life of Solitude
Michel de Montaigne's On Solitude
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Solitary Walker
Emily Dickinson: poet and recluse
Ralph Waldo Emerson on solitude
Henry David Thoreau: Quotations on solitude
Emily Bronte: Poet of Solitude
Friedrich Holderlin's poetry of solitude
Friedrich Nietzsche on solitude
Zarathustra, the hermit, and the madman
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Solitude of Self

20TH CENTURY
John Burroughs: Solitude
Rainer Maria Rilke and solitude
Fernando Pessoa and solitude
L.E.J. Brouwer: A Mathematician on Self
Simone Weil on society and solitude
Thomas Merton on solitude
Thomas Merton's Notes for a Philosophy of Solitude
Japanese Preface to Merton's Thoughts in Solitude
Silence in Quaker tradition
Glenn Gould's Solitude Trilogy

EASTERN TRADITIONS
Taoism: hermit philosophy
Wabi and Sabi: the aesthetics of solitude
"Wander Alone": the Rhinoceros Sutta, a Buddhist Pali text
Mauna (Silence) - a Jain view (reprint)
Silence and solitude in Ramana Maharshi
Abhishiktananda: paradox and solitude
J. Krishnamurti on solitude
Solitude in Sufi tradition
On Talking, from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Stephen Batchelor on self and solitude

GENERAL
J. Brierley: The Solitaries (reprint)
Pico Iyer: The Eloquent Sounds of Silence (reprint)
John M. Oldham: The solitary personality type
Writings on Self and the I-cult, by J., a hermit
Writings on the Hermit Life, by S., a hermit

The Tarot: what the hermit means.
The Hermit in Art: The Tarot through Waite.
P.D. Ouspensky: Symbolism of the Tarot: the hermit.
The I Ching: ancient eremitic source.
Peter the Hermit: medieval hermit war leader?
Ornamental hermits of eccentric modern England.
The Hermit, or, The Gift of Corn: a Sioux legend.
Emperor & the hermit: Alexander I and Feodor Kuzmich.
Fairy tales: the folkloric image of hermits.
Zarathustra, the hermit, and the madman.
Essays on hermits: Hilaire Belloc, G. K. Chesterton.
Jack Kerouac: "The Vanishing American Hero"
"Hermits" in Catholic Encyclopedia, 1907.
FILMS about hermits.

MEDIEVAL
"Hermit and King": an Old Irish colloquy.
"The Wanderer": an Old English elegy.
Malory's Morte d'Arthur: medieval hermit image.
Langland's Piers Plowman: medieval hermit model.
Frederick Buechner's Godric: medieval hermit path.
Weaver, Chalres P. The Hermit in English Literature from the Beginnings to 1660.

MODERN
La Fontaine's wicked hermits: 17th century tales
Romanticized 18th-century hermits in poetry:
    Parnell, Goldsmith, Beattie, Robinson, Coleridge
Walter Scott's Ivanhoe: medieval fraud hermit.
Hermit tales: Kipling, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Wilde, Gordon Smith, Ewing
Hugo: The Rat Hole (from Notre Dame de Paris)
Mark Twain: A hermit in The Prince and the Pauper
Sarah Orne Jewett: "Joanna, a woman hermit"
O. Henry: "To Him Who Waits" (short story)

20TH CENTURY
Edith Wharton's Hermit and the Wild Woman.
Kahlil Gibran's Hermit tales & On Talking," from The Prophet.
William Butler Yeats: four hermit poems
Jean Giono's The Man Who Planted Trees
Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea: wizards as hermits.

American Hermits and Recluses
Alleghany hermit (late 18th-century), lived "228 years"
Robert (1770-1832), a Black American hermit
Thoreau: Quotations on solitude
Emily Dickinson: poet and recluse
Mason Walton, "Hermit of Gloucester" )19th-early 20th century)
Don McLellan, Humboldt hermit (late 1950's)
Jack Kerouac: "The Vanishing American Hobo"
Daniel Manous, American hermit (ca. 1970)
Florida Everglades hermits, 1940's to 1980
American Wilderness hermits in photos: 1960's to 1980's
American Hermits in the 1980's: a LIFE magazine feature
Jun Fujita: two articles by Marjorie Buettner (reprint)

Asian Traditions: China
Eremitism in Ancient China, pt. 1: Confucius
Eremitism in Ancient China, pt. 2: Analects of Confucius
Eremitism in Ancient China, pt. 3: One Hundred Schools
Eremitism in Ancient China, pt. 4: Lao-tzu
Eremitism in Ancient China, pt. 5: Chuang-tzu
Tao Chien (Tao Yuan-ming), poet of reclusion
Hsieh Ling-yun, wilderness poet and recluse
Service or Reclusion: Tu Fu's Confucian dilemma
Han-shan: Cold Mountain Hermit (Han-shan)
Shan-shih: The Hermit House of Stonehouse
Record of the Thatched Hall (Po Chu-i)

Asian Traditions: Japan
Sanka: Mountain Home (Saigyo)
Ippen, Hijiri (Ippen)
Hojoki: My Hut (Kamo no Chomei)
Hosshinshu: Stories of model hermits and recluses (Kamo no Chomei)
Bassui's Eremitism
Genjuan no fui: Unreal Dwelling (Matsuo Basho)
Basho, Plodding in Saigyo's Footsteps (Matsuo Basho; Saigyo)
Gogo-an: Hermit Hut (Ryokan)
Zen Poetics of Ryokan
Jun Fujita: two articles by Marjorie Buettner (reprint)

Asian Traditions: South Asia
Milarepa, Tibetan Buddhist hermit
Orgyan Chokyi, Tibetan Buddhist nun and hermit
Shabkar, Tibetan Buddhist hermit
Alexandra David-Neel on Tibetan Buddhist hermits
Thudong: Forest monks and hermits of Southeast Asia
The Solitary path of the Jain Digambara
Eremitism in Hindu India: the asrama system
Eremitism in Hindu India: the classical asrama system and the Law of Manu
Silence and solitude in Ramana Maharshi

Christian Traditions: Ancient & Medieval
Paul, First Christian Hermit
The Hard Sayings of Arsenius
Abba Moses, the Black hermit
St. Cuthbert: Celtic saint and hermit
St. Meinrad: Swiss saint and hermit
"The Desert Mothers: A Survey of the Feminine Anchoretic Tradition in Western Europe, by Margot H. King" (article reprint)
Goscelin of St. Bertin's Book of Consolation for anchoress Eva
Romuald: Medieval Christian hermit and "founder"
Stephen of Muret: A Medieval Christian hermit's Thoughts
Aelred of Rievaulx's Rule for a Solitary
Ancrene Wisse: a Medieval guide for anchoresses
Richard Rolle's Form of Living: A Medieval guide for an anchoress
Office for the Benediction of Hermits (16th century) (reprint)
Nil Sorsky's Rule for hermits
Non-possessors and possessors in 16th-century Russia

Christian Traditions: Modern
Roger Crab, 17th-century English hermit
Thomas Parkinson, Thirsk hermit
The Way of a Pilgrim: A Russian Orthodox hermit's path
A Brief history of Montserrat hermits
Thomas Merton on solitude
Thomas Merton's Notes for a Philosophy of Solitude
"Disillusionment is Positive": Interview with a Montserrat hermit
"Father Basili, monk and hermit of Montserrat": interview
Daniel Bourguet: Protestant hermit
Robert Lax, enigmatic hermit
Hermits in the 1990's and 2000's: surveys
"Lay Hermits," by Eugene Stockton (article reprint)
"Forest Dwellers: An Alternative Life Style for Seniors," by Eugene Stockton (article reprint)