The American naturalist and essayist John Burroughs (1837-1921) wrote prolifically of his experiences in nature and was one of America's most honored writers at the beginning of the 20th century. The seventh of 10 children of Chauncy and Amy Kelly Burrou...
One of the best-known and most widely read nature writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, John Burroughs is largely unknown and unread today. Prolific and consistent, Burroughs published scores of essays in influential large-circula...
John Burroughs is still revered by some conservationists and bird watchers as the Homer of the nature essay. As a literary critic, however, he has been met since his death in 1921 with a silence that belies the influence he exercised during a half centur...
My first job on our farm required taking a drink of water at 3:00 p.m. to my father who plowed in the field. It was one of the most pleasant jobs I have ever experienced. I would follow in a furrow behind the plow...
THERE have been plenty of arts events this week, as every week. The Orange Prize for Women's Fiction unleashed its shortlist. Harrison Birtwistle's opera about the poor old Minotaur was premiered. A bit of an exhibition about James Bond opened. The RSC put on...
While Ricky Hatton's family celebrated Christmas and rang in the new year in Manchester, England, he sparred round after round in a mostly empty gym across town.When Hatton's son, Campbell, had his sixth birthday last week, Hatton marked the occasion with a phone call from...
