Click the links below to access short text readings for ENG 240/Topics in AmLit: Literature of the Open Road
- Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road.” Originally published as “Poem of the Road” in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass
- Henry David Thoreau, “Walking.” Portions first delivered in lecture form in 1851; first published in present format in 1862 in the Atlantic Monthly
- Mary Austin, “The Walking Woman.” Originally published in 1909 in Lost Borders
- Gary Snyder, “The Circumambulation of Mt. Tamalpais.” Published in 1996 in Mountains and Rivers Without End
- Gary Snyder, “John Muir on Mt. Ritter.” Re-printed in 2000 in The Gary Snyder Reader
