1902. Volume Twelve of Twenty-Three, Riverby Edition. John Burroughs emerged from an obscure boyhood in the Catskill Mountains to write more than thirty books, create the genre of the nature essay, and become the preeminent nature writer of his day. Through his essays in books and popular magazines, John Burroughs taught countless Americans to appreciate nature. Contents: Literary Values; Analogy-True and False; Style and the Man; Criticism and the Man; Recent Phases of Literary Criticism; Thou Shalt Not Preach; Democracy and Literature; Poetry and Eloquence; Gilbert White Again; Lucid Literature; Mere Literature; Another Word on Emerson; Thoreau's Wildness; Nature in Literature; Suggestiveness; On the Rereading of Books; The Spell of the Past; and The Secret of Happiness. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.