Deriving their literary inspiration from New England Henry David Thoreau and Robert Frost
indeed turn the Northeast Corner into a «poetic landscape». The natural traditional
countryside and habits of New England provided rich stimulus for their writing. Indeed the
rural area formed the focus of their individualism abhorrence for state repression and early
form of ecological awareness. This comparative study not only seeks to underline the affinities
between these two «hard-headed Yankees» it also aims to examine the individual nuances of each
poet viewed against their common environmental and thematic background. By means of intensive
text analyses the real extent of Thoreau's influence on Frost is revealed and the
characteristic profile of each author is brought into a new light.
