The Poetry of Thoreau (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry David Thoreau
- First Published: 1895
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Nature, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Poetry or poets, Romanticism, Transcendentalism
Critical Evaluation:
Most of Thoreau’s best poetry was written between 1839-1842, though he had experimented with verse composition for several years before those years. The poems best known to the public are those which appear in A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS—several had already been published in the magazine The Dial—and in Walden, his only books published before his death. Most of the remaining poems in the collected editions appear in Thoreau’s voluminous Journal, published after his death.
Carl Bode points out in his introduction to the...
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