SOURCE: “Henry Thoreau as a Versifier,” in The New York Times Book Review, September 26, 1943, p. 30.
In the following review of Carl Bode's 1943 edition of Thoreau's Collected Poems, Hellman says the volume does not establish Thoreau as a very important poet—despite the poems' “occasional sparks of divine fire.”
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