SOURCE: “Thoreau and Poetry,” in Henry David Thoreau, edited by Walter Harding, George Brenner and Paul A. Doyle, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1972, pp. 103-16.
In the following essay, which was originally delivered as a lecture at a festival honoring Thoreau, the poet Rukeyser asserts that Thoreau's poems are “suburban in relation to the forest of the prose” and compares Thoreau to Sir Walter Raleigh.
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