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Poems of Nature

Henry David Thoreau

Language:
English
Status:
Complete work
Authorship:
Written by the author
Condition of the text:
Clean text
Extent:
~12,200 words · 58 passages
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What it is about

Poems of Nature (1895): the poetry, collected thirty years after his death.

Context and history

Thoreau thought of himself as a poet before a prose writer, and Emerson told him to give it up. He was half right: the poems do not stand beside Walden, but they explain how he learned to write the sentences that do.

Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.

Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) POEMS OF NATURE POEMS OF NATURE BY·HENRY·DAVID·THOREAU· SELECTED·AND·EDITED·BY·HENRY·S·SALT AND·FRANK·B·SANBORN BOSTON·AND·NEW·YORK: HOUGHTON·MIFFLIN & CO· LONDON: JOHN·LANE· THE·BODLEY·HEAD· MDCCCXCV. CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION xi NATURE 1 INSPIRATION 3 SIC VITA 10 THE FISHER’S BOY 14 THE ATLANTIDES 16 THE AURORA OF GUIDO 19 SYMPATHY 21 FRIENDSHIP 26 TRUE KINDNESS 31 TO THE MAIDEN IN THE EAST 32 FREE LOVE 37 RUMOURS FROM AN ÆOLIAN HARP 39 LINES 41 STANZAS 43 A RIVER SCENE 46 RIVER SONG 49 SOME TUMULTUOUS LITTLE RIL

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