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"item_title" : "Collected Poems of Henry Thoreau",
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"item_description" : "Ralph Waldo Emerson once described Henry Thoreau's poetry as the purest strain, and the loftiest, I think, that has yet pealed from this unpoetic American forest. Not always thus esteemed, Thoreau's verses were by no means ignored. Bronson Alcott applauded them; James Russell Lowell asserted their rawness; Nathaniel Hawthorne grudgingly approved them. As author of Walden and Civil Disobedience, Thoreau the writer of prose is world-renowned, but Thoreau the poet has been all but forgotten. This collection has all of Thoreau's original verse--the glowing lines and the quiet, the prosaic and the Transcendental. And all have at the very least the large, astringent force of young genius.",
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Overview
Ralph Waldo Emerson once described Henry Thoreau's poetry as "the purest strain, and the loftiest, I think, that has yet pealed from this unpoetic American forest." Not always thus esteemed, Thoreau's verses were by no means ignored. Bronson Alcott applauded them; James Russell Lowell asserted their rawness; Nathaniel Hawthorne grudgingly approved them. As author of Walden and Civil Disobedience, Thoreau the writer of prose is world-renowned, but Thoreau the poet has been all but forgotten.
This collection has all of Thoreau's original verse--the glowing lines and the quiet, the prosaic and the Transcendental. And all have at the very least the large, astringent force of young genius.
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- ISBN-13: 9780801895708
- ISBN-10: 0801895707
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publish Date: March 2010
- Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
- Page Count: 432
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