SOURCE: “Thoreau,” in Thoreau as Seen By His Contemporaries, edited by Walter Harding, Dover Publications, 1960, pp. 26-8.
In the following excerpt from his essay on the life of Thoreau, originally published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862, Emerson says his friend's verses were “often rude and defective.”
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