Poetry: An Exercise In Emotion And Vulnerability

“[Henry David] Thoreau is a keen and delicate observer of nature - a genuine observer - which, I suspect, is almost as rare a character as even an original poet; and Nature, in return for his love, seems to adopt him as her especial child, and shows him secrets which few others are allowed to witness.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne (Journal entry, September 1, 1842)Most of the greatest poets were not recognized for their work until they had long been laid to rest. Many suffered g...

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