SOURCE: “The Conditions for Poetry: A Study of Thoreau's Challenge to Transcendence,” in The American Benedictine Review, Vol. 28, No. 2, June 1977, pp. 188-200.
In the following essay, Hansen claims Thoreau's poetic philosophy reveals an artist engaged in the task of writing poetry and metapoetry simultaneously.
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