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See also:BURROUGHS, See also:JOHN (1837– ) , See also:American poet and writer on natural See also:history, was See also:born in See also:Roxbury, See also:Delaware See also:county, New See also:York, on the 3rd of See also:April 1837. In his earlier years he engaged in various pursuits, teaching, journalism,• farming and See also:fruit-raising, and for nine years was a clerk in the See also:treasury See also:department at See also:Washington. After See also:publishing in 1867 a See also:volume of Notes on Walt See also:Whitman as poet and See also:person (a subject to which he returned in 1896 with his Whitman: a Study), he began in 1871, with See also:Wake-See also:Robin, a See also:series of books on birds, See also:flowers and rural scenes which has made him the successor of See also:Thoreau as a popular essayist en the See also:plants and animals environing human See also:life. His later writings showed a more philosophic See also:mood and a greater disposition towards See also:literary or meditative allusion than their predecessors, but the See also:general theme and method remained the same. His See also:chief books, in addition to Wake-Robin, are Birds and Poets (1877), Locusts and See also:Wild See also:Honey (1879), Signs and Seasons (1886), and Ways of Nature (1905); these are in See also:prose, but he wrote much also in See also:verse, a volume of poems, See also:Bird and Bough, being published in 1906. See also:Winter See also:Sunshine (1875) and Fresh See also:Fields (1884) are sketches of travel in See also:England and See also:France.
A See also:biographical See also:sketch of Burroughs is prefixed to his See also:Year in the Fields (new ed., 1901). A See also:complete See also:uniform edition of his See also:works was issued in 1895, &c. (See also:Riverside edition, See also:Cambridge, See also:Mass.).
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