SOURCE: “Thoreau's Poetics,” in American Transcendental Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 2, Summer 1971, pp. 74-81.
In the following essay, Colquitt suggests that Thoreau's judgments about the poet's experience hampered his success as a writer of verses.
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