An Anthropology of Eremitism
Taoism: hermit philosophy
Wabi and Sabi: the Aesthetics of Solitude
The Desert Fathers and Mothers on the Psychology of Solitude
Acedia, Bane of Solitaries
Epictetus: What is Solitude? from Discourses)
Evagrius Ponticus: Asceticism & Solitary Life
Goscelin of St. Bertin's Book of Consolation for Anchoress Eva
Aelred of Rievaulx's Rule for a Solitary
Ancrene Wisse: Medieval Guide for Anchoresses
Ibn Yufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan
Gelassenheit in Meister Eckhart
Nil Sorky's Rule for Hermits
Petrarch's The Life of Solitude
Montaigne's On Solitude
Rousseau's Reveries of a Solitary Walker
Thoreau: Quotations on Solitude
Emily Bronte, Poet of Solitude
Holderlin's Poetry of Solitude
Nietzsche on Solitude
Zarathustra, the Hermit, and the Madman
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Solitude of Self
John Burroughs: Solitude
Rilke and Solitude
Solitude in Fernando Pessoa
Simone Weil on Society and Solitude
Thomas Merton on Solitude
Thomas Merton's Notes for a Philosophy of Solitude
Thomas Merton's Japanese Preface to Thoughts in Solitude
Silence in Quaker Tradition
Mauna (Silence) - A Jain View
Silence & Solitude in Ramana Maharshi
Krishnamurti on Solitude
Stephen Batchelor on Self and Solitude
Glenn Gould's Solitude Trilogy
J. Brierley: The Solitaries (reprint)
Pico Iyer: The Eloquent Sounds of Silence (reprint)
Writings on Self and the I-cult, by J., a hermit
Writings on Hermit Life, by S., a hermit
John M. Oldham's Solitary Personality Type
Poetry of Solitude: English, Chinese, Japanese
The Tarot: What the hermit means.
The I Ching: ancient eremitic source.
The Wanderer: an Old English Elegy.
Hermit and King: an Old Irish colloquy.
Malory's Morte d'Arthur. The medieval image of the hermit.
Langland's Piers Plowman: the medieval
image of the hermit.
Peter the Hermit. The medieval hermit turned war leader?
Ornamental Hermits of Eccentric Modern England.
The Emperor and the Hermits: Tsar Alexander I
and Feodor Kuzmich.
Jean de La Fontaine's Wicked Hermits (17-century debauched hermits)
Thomas Parnell: The Hermit (18th-century romanticized hermit)
Oliver Goldsmith: The Hermit (18th-century romanticized hermit)
James Beattie: The Hermit (18th-century romanticized hermit)
Mary Robinson: Anselmo, The Hermit of the Alps (18th-century romanticized
hermit)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Mad Monk (18-century
romanticized hermit)
Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. The medieval fraud hermit.
Fairy Tales: Grimm, Lang, Andersen, Bomans.
Oscar Wilde: a tale about a hermit.
Rudyard Kipling: a tale about a hermit.
Anton Chekhov: The Bet. A tale about a modern anchorite.
Leo Tolstoy: two tales about hermits.
William Butler Yeats: four poems about hermits.
Kahlil Gibran: five tales about hermits.
Kahlil Gibran: On Talking (from The Prophet).
Frederick Buechner's Godric. The medieval hermit path.
Hilaire Belloc: On a Hermit Whom I Knew (1908).
G. K. Chesterton: The Case for Hermits (1935).
Jean Giono's The Man Who Planted Trees. The hermit vocation.
Article: Hermits (Catholic Encyclopedia, 1907)
Bibliography: Chinese Eremitism and Reclusion
FILMS about 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
Don McLellan, Humboldt Hermit (late 1950's)
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)
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 Article by Marjorie Buettner (reprint)
Asian Traditions: Other
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
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
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, Seventeenth-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)