Sharp Eyes: John Burroughs and American Nature Writing

John Burroughs combined scientific observation with poetic spirit in his nature writing. This collection of essays explores Burrough's life and character, as well as his role as a writer and his relationships with contemporaries including Whitman, Thoreau, Emerson and Muir.

Author: Charlotte Zoë Walker
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 08/01/2000
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.20h x 5.99w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9780815606376

About the Author

John Burroughs was a writer and an environmentalist whose work was tremendously popular in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was a friend and contemporary of Walt Whitman and John Muir.

Charlotte Zoë Walker is a professor of English at the State University of New York at Oneonta, where she teaches courses in nature and literature. She is also the editor of The Art of Seeing Things: Essays of John Burroughs, published by Syracuse University Press.