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The author writes that "Nature is the inspiration, art the song" in his introduction to this illuminating collection of biographical sketches which examine how nature inspired the work of such writers as Tennyson, Thoreau, Carlyle, and Wordsworth-these writers, among others in this volume, are considered some of the most contemplative minds of the nineteenth century.
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Reveals how classic American novels embodied the tensions embedded in American views of the natural world from the Centennial until the end of the Second World War.
Reconciling Nature maps the complex views of the environment that are evident in celebrated American novels written between the Centennial Celebration of 1876 and the end of the Second World War. During this period, which includes the Progressive era and the New Deal, Americans held three...
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In Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural world. These inspiring wordsmiths are scholars, spiritual seekers, conservationists, scientists, novelists, and explorers. They defy easy categorization, yet they all share a bold authenticity that makes their work both distinct and universal. Featured writers include: Dorothy Wordsworth, Susan Fenimore Cooper,...
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"A brilliant and engaging book on haiku, and on the state of the body and mind required in the million to one shot against producing a good one" -Jim HarrisonFirst published in 1997, Seeds From a Birch Tree introduced readers to the only form of poetry in all of world literature that makes nature into a spiritual path. Its message was simple: Haiku teaches us to return to nature by following the seasons-seventeen syllables at a time.With its mix of...
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This is John Burroughs 1887 work, 'Birds And Poets'. It contains masterful sketches of bird life interspersed with delightful poems, interesting historical information, and beautiful descriptive prose. This volume will appeal to all with a love of nature writing and poetry, and it would make for a fantastic addition to any collection. Contents include: 'Birds and Poets', 'Touches Of Nature', 'A Bird Medley', 'April', 'Spring Poems', 'Our Rural Divinity',...
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"Out on the edges of our frantic twenty-first-century nation, bands of wild horses stand nestled together, calmly nuzzling each other to maintain the bonds of family. Prairie hills unfurl around them, and the sky provides their shelter. In the same states where factories churn, offices bustle, and cell phones demand our attention, remote places of solace and beauty rest, mostly undiscovered, in a parallel world that lies closer than we often imagine....
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"Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media--from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremonies, flower arrangements, and annual observances. In Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons, Haruo Shirane shows how, when, and why this practice developed and explicates the richly encoded social, religious, and political meanings of this imagery. Refuting the belief that this tradition reflects...
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The long-awaited literary biography of the supreme "poets' poet"
John Clare (1793-1864) is the greatest laboring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self, but until now he has never been the subject of a comprehensive literary biography.
Here at last is his full story told by the light of his voluminous work: his birth in poverty, his...
10) The tree
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The classic meditation on creativity and the natural world
"For years I have carried this book. . . with me on travels to reread, ponder, envy. In prose of classic gravity, precision, and delicacy, Fowles addresses matters of final importance." -W. S. Merwin, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"The Tree is the fullest and finest exploration I've ever read of how the useless delights to be discovered in nature can ripen into the practice of art." -Lewis...
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This book addresses the themes of nature and the environment in literature through a diverse set of texts and through multiple methodologies. Classic works discussed include Walden, Call of the Wild, O Pioneers!, The Old Man and the Sea, and selections from the poetry of William Wordsworth, while contemporary works include ... and the earth did not devour him, Desert Solitaire, and Prodigal Summer.
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