SOURCE: “Thoreau and the Organic Principle in Poetry,” in Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Vol. 53, No. 1, March 1938, pp. 286-302.
In the following essay, Lorch examines Thoreau's organic theory of poetry, noting its importance in his poetic credo.
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