Author:John Burroughs

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John Burroughs (1837–1921)

American essayist, poet, and naturalist, and an important figure in the evolution of the U.S. conservation movement. This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Articles written by this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "J. Bu."

John Burroughs

Poems

• My Own Shall Come to Me
• Waiting (1876)
• Bird and Bough (1906)

Works

• Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (1867)
• Wake Robin (1871)
• Winter Sunshine (1875) (travel sketches)
• Birds and Poets (1877)
• Locusts and Wild Honey (1879)
• Pepacton (1881)
• Fresh Fields (1884) (travel sketches)
• Signs and Seasons (1886)
• Birds and bees and other studies in nature (1896)
• Indoor Studies (1889)
• Riverby (1894)
• Whitman: A Study (1896)
• The Light of Day (1900)
• Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers (1900)
• Songs of Nature (1901)
• John James Audubon (1902) (biography)
• Literary Values and other Papers (1902)
• Far and Near (1904)
• Ways of Nature (1905)
• Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt (1906)
• Afoot and Afloat (1907)
• Leaf and Tendril (1908)
• Time and Change (1912)
• The Summit of the Years (1913)
• The Breath of Life (1915)
• Under the Apple-Trees (1916)
• Field and Study (1919)
• Accepting the Universe (1920)
• Under the Maples (1921)
• The Last Harvest (1922)
• My Boyhood, with a Conclusion by His Son Julian Burroughs (1922)

Articles in The Popular Science Monthly Project

• 1. “Science and Theology,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 30, December 1886
• 2. “The Natural versus the Supernatural,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 31, May 1887

Contribution to EB1911

• “Whitman, Walt” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.

Articles

• “Field Notes”, Century Magazine, Vol. 48, Issue 2 (June, 1894)
• “Burroughs, John” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1921, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.