SOURCE: “Finding a Voice: Thoreau's Pentameters,” in ESQ: Journal of the American Renaissance, No. 60, Summer 1970, pp. 67-72.
In the following essay, Lane offers a close reading of two 1850 poems, “Tall Ambrosia” and “Among the Worst of Men.”
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