SOURCE: “The Sluggard Knight in Thoreau's Poetry,” in Thoreau Journal Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 2, April 1973, pp. 6-9.
In the following essay, Silverman maintains that Thoreau's “sluggard knights” in his poems suffer conflicts between their desire for heroic self-assertion and their lazy natures.
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