SOURCE: “Thoreau's Watershed Season As A Poet: The Hidden Fruits of the Summer and Fall of 1841,” in Studies in the American Renaissance, edited by Joel Myerson, University of Virginia Press, 1990, pp. 49-68.
In the following essay, Witherell maintains that the group of interrelated poems Thoreau composed in the summer and fall of 1841 provide an important example of the role of poetry in his development as a writer.
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