Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Thoreau” in chapter 7 of Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters:
... wild ecstasy that thrilled the young Emerson as he crossed the bare Common at sunset, the supernal beauty of which Poe dreamed in the Fordham cottage, the bay horse and hound and turtle-dove which Thoreau lost long ago and could not find in his hut at Walden, these were something which our later Greeks of the New England Athens esteemed as foolishness.
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