JOHN BURROUGHS
\d͡ʒˈɒn bˈʌɹʌfz], \dʒˈɒn bˈʌɹʌfz], \dʒ_ˈɒ_n b_ˈʌ_ɹ_ʌ_f_z]\
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An American essayist; born in Roxbury, N. Y., April 3, 1837. He is the son of a farmer, became a journalist in New York, and engaged in other pursuits until 1874, when he settled on a farm at Esopus. N. Y., to devote himself to literature and to fruit-culture. His essays are remarkable for their descriptions of nature and their style. His books on rural themes include: "Wake-Robin" (1871); "Winter Sunshine" (1875); "Birds and Poets" (1877); "Locusts and Wild Honey" (1879); "Pepacton: Notes of a Walker" (1881); "Fresh Fields" (1884); "Signs and Seasons" (1886); and "Sharp Eyes" (1888). He has also written "Notes on Walt Whitman" (1867); and "Ways of Nature" (1905).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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