Letter from a Distant Land (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Philip Booth
- First Published: 1955
- Type of Work: Epistle/letter in verse
- Genres: Poetry, Epistolary literature
- Subjects: Nature, World War II, Poetry or poets, War, Airplanes or jets, Romanticism, Lakes, Airports
The Poem
“Letter from a Distant Land” is an epistolary poem of 163 lines in three stanzas. The title is derived from a quotation (which Philip Booth borrows as an epigraph) from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (1854). In this classic of American literature, Thoreau describes his adventure of living at Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, between 1845 and 1847.
In a brief passage, Thoreau, speaking to other writers, declares that part of a writer’s work should be a simple account of his or her life, “some such as he would send to his kindred from a...
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