A Note on Peter Matthiessen, Who Wrote Elegantly of the Natural World

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By Yale Environment 360Apr 8, 2014, 8:40 am68 pts
For an editor, the prospect of working with Peter Matthiessen was intimidating. He was one of our finest writers, and he wrote with such poetic precision and lyrical grace that at first it felt presumptuous to propose Peter Matthiessen any changes to his writing at all. That feeling was heightened by his strong…

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