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HERMITS IN LITERATURE
AMERICAN (USA) HERMITS & RECLUSES
HERMITS IN HISTORY: WEST
- ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL
- Paul, first Christian hermit (from St. Jerome's biography).
- The hard sayings of Arsenius the hermit.
- Moses, a Black desert hermit's experiences.
- Cuthbert, 7th-century Celtic saint, prior, hermit.
- Meinrad, 9th century Swiss saint & hermit.
- The Desert Mothers: Women in the Western anchoritic tradition.
- Goscelin's Book of Consolation for anchoress Eva.
- Romuald of Ravenna, hermit and Camadolese "founder"
- Stephen of Muret and his Thoughts.
- Aelred of Rievaulx: Rule for a Solitary.
- Ancrene Wisse: medieval guide for anchoresses
- Richard Rolle: Form of Living, medieval guide for an anchoress
- Hermit and pope: Pietro Murrone & Celestine V
- Gregorio López, Hermit of New Spain (16th cemtury Mexico)
- Order of Benediction for Hermits (16th century)
- Nil Sorsky's Rule for hermits, hesychasm for Russian sketes
- Non-possessors & possessors in 16th-century Russia
- Roger Crab, 17th-century eclectic English hermit.
- The tragic life of Thomas Parkinson, Thirsk hermit
- The Way of a Pilgrim by a 19th-century Russian Orthodox hermit
- MODERN
- Thomas Merton on solitude
- Merton's Notes for a Philosophy of Solitude
- Merton's preface to Thoughts in Solitude
- Robert Lax, enigmatic hermit
- A brief history of Monserrat hermits
- Two interviews with Father Basili, last hermit of Monserrat:
first;
second
- Daniel Bourguet, Protestant hermit
- Hermits in the 1990's and 2000's: surveys
- "Lay Hermits," by Eugene Stockton (article reprint)
- "Forest Dwellers: Alternative Lifestyle for Seniors," by Eugene Stockton (article reprint)
HERMITS IN HISTORY: EAST
- CHINA
- Eremitism in Ancient China, pt 1: Confucius
- Eremitism in Ancient China, pt. 2: Analects
- Eremitism in Ancient China, pt. 3: Hundred Schools
- Eremitism in Ancient China, pt. 4: Lao-tzu
- Eremitism in Ancient China, pt. 5: Chuang-tzu
- Tao Chien, China's Poet of Reclusion (4th-5th century)
- Hsieh Ling-yun, Wilderness Poet and Recluse(4th-5th century)
- Tu Fu: Reclusion and the Confucian Dilemma (8th century)
- Han-shan: Cold Mountain hermit-poet (8th century)
- Po-Chu-i: Thatched Hall, Po-Chu-i's hut (8th century)
- Stonehouse: Shan-shih, Stonehouse's hermit house (14th century)
- JAPAN
- Kamo no Chomei: Hojoki, my hut (12th century).
- Kamo No Chomi: Hosshinshu, tales of Japanese hermits.
- Ippen, hijiri and wanderer (12th century).
- Saigyo: Sanka, mountain home (12th century).
- Basho's Genjuan no fui: "Unreal Dwelling" (18th century).
- Basho, plodding in Saigyo's footsteps.
- Ryokan: Gogo-an, hermit hut (18th century).
- Zen Poetics of Ryokan
- Jun Fujita, tanka-poet recluse: two articles (20th century)
- SOUTH ASIA
- The Solitary Path of the Jain Digambara.
- Thudong: Forest Monks and Hermits of Southeast Asia.
- Abhishiktananda: Paradox and Solitude.
- TIBET
- Milarepa's Mila Grubum: One Hundred Thousand Songs.
- Orgyan Chokyi: Tibetan Buddhist "Hermitess" (18th century)
- Shabkar, Tibetan Buddhist Hermit (19th century)
- Alexandra David-Neel on Tibetan Buddhist hermits
SOLITUDE
- WEST
- 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: 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 hermitst
- MODERN
- Francesco Petrarch: The Life of Solitude
- Michel de Montaigne: On Solitude
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Solitary Walker
- 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
- Alice Meynell: Solitude
- 20TH CENTURY
- Rainer Maria Rilke and solitude
- Fernando Pessoa and solitude
- L.E.J. Brouwer: A mathematician on self
- Simone Weil on society and solitude
- Madness and Solitude in Kahlil Gibran
- John Burroughs: Solitude
- Robinson Jeffers: poetry, nature, 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: Solitude Trilogy
- "Showing the way out of the fly bottle: searching for Wittgenstein in Norway," by Jan Estep - on Wittgenstein's hut (article reprint)
- EAST
- Taoism: hermit philosophy
- Wabi and Sabi: the aesthetics of solitude
- "Wander Alone": the Rhinoceros sutta
- Mauna (Silence) - a Jain view (reprint)
- Silence and solitude in Ramana Maharshi
- Abhishiktananda: paradox and solitude
- J. Krishnamurti on solitude
- Solitude in Sufi tradition
- Kahlil Gibran: "On Talking," from The Prophet
- 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
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