H. D. Thoreau, The Maine Woods, "Ktaadn," §1; Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"; Sarah Orne Jewett, A Country Doctor, ch. 1

In episode 14 (2.2), we begin two longer works related to Maine: Henry David Thoreau's nonfictional account of his adventures in the state, The Maine Woods (1864), and the York County author Sarah Orne Jewett's novel A Country Doctor (1884). Because "Ktaadn," the opening essay of Thoreau's three-part book, quotes from Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," that poem is read aloud in full.