SOURCE: “Thoreau as Poet,” in The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau, edited by Joel Myerson, Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 57-70.
In the following essay, Witherell finds that Thoreau's poems are mainly of interest for what they tell us about Thoreau's life and his development as an artist.
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