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Further Reading
Jensen, Jens. Siftings, the Major Portion of The Clearing, and Collected Writings. R. F. Seymour, Chicago, 1956. Contains selections from Jensen's writings, including some from The Clearing. Siftings (1939) was re-edited by and republished in 1990 by Johns Hopkins University Press as part of the American Land Classics series, with a foreword by Prof. Charles E. Little and an afterword by Darrel G. Morrison.
Birnbaum, Charles, et al, eds. Pioneers of American Landscape Architecture. McGraw-Hill, 2000.
Eaton, Leonard K. Landscape Artist in America : The Life and Work of Jens Jensen. University of Chicago Press, 1964.
Grese, Robert E. Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
Miller, Wilhelm. The Prairie Spirit of Landscape Gardening. Republished, with introduction by Christopher Vernon. University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.
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