Kilmer was a prolific poet who celebrated nature and faith in short, sentimental verse. His works, now mostly forgotten, have been dismissed by modern scholars as overly simplistic. Today, his reputation largely rests on the wide popularity of a single 1913 poem, “Trees.” It begins, “I think that I shall never see / A poem lovely as a tree,” and many specific trees have been proposed as Kilmer’s inspiration. His career was cut short when what killed him at age 31? Discuss
Source: The Free Dictionary