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1	Seeds from a Birch Tree: Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey more books like this by Clark Strand add to wishlist IN see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
2	Ecocriticism Reader more books like this by Cheryll Glotfelty (Editor), Harold Fromm (Editor) add to wishlist This collection provides an anthology of classic and contemporary writings in the emerging field of literary ecology. Exploring the relationship between literature and the physical environment, literary ecology reflects our interactions with the natural world. see all copies from $12.99! new only from $24.95! \| SVS
3	Walking more books like this by Henry David Thoreau add to wishlist WALKING began as a lecture entitled "The Wild," which Thoreau gave at the Concord Lyceum on April 1851. The lecture was a success, and he delivered it on several subsequent occasions. Finally, it was published as an essay in the Atlantic Monthly not long after Thoreau's death in 1862. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	John Clare more books like this by Jonathan Bate add to wishlist Bate's biography of John Clare (1793-1864) celebrates a relatively unsung poet whose poems about the working class and the rural poor were based on his own early years as an agricultural laborer. Clare, who lived in dire poverty all his life, began his career as a friend of Hazlitt and Lamb, but ended his life in an insane asylum. Out of 3500 ... see all copies from $2.82! new only from $9.98! \| first editions
5	Constructing Nature: Readings from the American Experience more books like this by Richard Jenseth, Edward E Lotto add to wishlist Appropriate for freshman composition and all level college English courses that include readings on nature and cultural studies. It may also be used for introductory courses in Environmental Studies and Environmental Politics. A reader on nature that presents substantial, complex readings within the context of American culture. Assignment ... see all copies from $3.85! new only from $43.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters more books like this by Annette Kolodny add to wishlist An original and highly unusual psycholinguistic study of American literature and culture from 1584 to 1860, this volume focuses on the metaphor of 'land-as-woman.' It is the first systematic documentation of the recurrent responses to the American continent as a feminine entity (as Mother, as Virgin, as Temptress, as the Ravished), and it is also ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.71! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture more books like this by Lawrence Buell add to wishlist With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes up in "The Environmental Imagination". With Thoreau's "Walden" as a touchstone, Buell gives us an account of environmental perception, the place of nature in the ... see all copies from $28.17! new only from $28.17!
8	The song of the Earth more books like this by Jonathan Bate add to wishlist The author explores the effects on literature of modern ecological disasters and dilemmas, and also what effects literature (and particularly poetry) might have on the fate of the earth. He includes selections from the work of authors as diverse as Jane Austen and Ted Hughes. see all copies from $9.70! new only from $9.70! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Ecofeminist Literary Criticism: Theory, Interpretation, Pedagogy more books like this by Greta Gaard (Editor), Patrick D Murphy (Editor) add to wishlist "Ecofeminist Literary Criticism" is the first collection of its kind: a diverse anthology that explores both how ecofeminism can enrich literary criticism and how literary criticism can contribute to ecofeminist theory and activism. Ecofeminism is a practical movement for social change that discerns interconnections among all forms of oppression: ... see all copies from $15.75! new only from $37.45!
10	Romantic Science: The Literary Forms of Natural History more books like this by Noah Heringman (Editor) add to wishlist Although "romantic science" may sound like a paradox, much of the romance surrounding modern science -- the mad scientist, the intuitive genius, the utopian transformation of nature -- originated in the Romantic period. Romantic Science traces the literary and cultural politics surrounding the formation of the modern scientific disciplines ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $18.50! \| SVS
11	Room for Me Mountain Lion more books like this by Nancy Larrick add to wishlist More than one hundred poems describing the beauty and splendor of the wilderness, written by some of the world's most famous poets. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Epitaph for a Desert Anarchist: The Life & Legacy of Edward Abbey more books like this by James Bishop, Jr. add to wishlist An introduction to the life of Edward Abbey--novelist, essayist, naturalist, philosopher and social critic. Includes Abbey's own writings as well as interviews with friends. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Writing Nature: Henry Thoreau's Journal more books like this by Professor Sharon Cameron add to wishlist At his death, Henry Thoreau left the majority of his writing unpublished. The bulk of this material is a journal that he kept for twenty-four years. Sharon Cameron's major claim is that this private work (the" Journal") was Thoreau's primary work, taking precedence over the books that he published in his lifetime. Her controversial thesis views ... see all copies from $7.49! new only from $20.76! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature more books like this by Margaret Atwood add to wishlist This book is intended for all readers of Canadian Literature, and of Margaret Atwood; students of Canadian Literature and History, and of comparative literature. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.28! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	American Nature Writers more books like this by John Elder add to wishlist From "Walden" to "Arctic Dreams," nature writing is a powerful American literary tradition. The essays in the set combine biography, criticism, and in some cases, interviews to tell the story of each author. This set includes 70 biographical/critical essays on such writers as Rachel Carson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barry Lopez, Henry David Thoreau, ... see all copies from $2.32! first editions
16 view cover	Wallace Stevens and the Seasons more books like this by George S Lensing add to wishlist This critical study of the poetry of Stevens explores how the poet expressed the problematic issues of his life--including his troubled marriage and strained relationship with his daughter--by retreating into the natural landscapes of his work. The worlds evoked in "Autumn Refrain," "The Snow Man," "The World as Meditation" and other pieces are ... see all copies from $30.90! new only from $30.90!
17 view cover	Story Line: Exploring the Literature of the Appalachian Trail more books like this by Ian Marshall add to wishlist Marshall weaves stories of his own hiking adventures together with reflective explorations of some of the literary works written - from the earliest days of European settlement to the present - on this mountain chain which has been the inspiration for some of America's greatest nature writing. see all copies from $2.58! new only from $14.50! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Coyote in the Maze more books like this by Peter Quigley (Editor) add to wishlist The Works of Edward Abbey have been well known to general readers since the 1960s. Now an increasing interest in nature and environmental writing has focused the attention of a new generation of readers on classics such as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang. This volume, the first comprehensive collection of literary criticism devoted to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Nature's Covenant: Figures of Landscape in Ruskin more books like this by C. Stephen Finley add to wishlist see all copies from $2.32! new only from $10.76! \| first editions
20 view cover	Shakespearean Wild: Geography, Genus, and Gender more books like this by Jeanne Addison Roberts add to wishlist 'A significant view of women in Shakespeare against a large background of the Wild. The learning brought to bear on the topic is not only sound but fascinating' - Maurice Charney, author of "How to Read Shakespeare". Socrates is said to have thanked the gods that he was born neither barbarian nor female nor animal. His words conjure up the image ... see all copies from $2.33! new only from $11.09! \| first editions
21 view cover	The nature reader more books like this by Daniel Halpern add to wishlist One of the best books of nature writing around "Our lives spent in rooms, our imaginations and outlooks framed by windows - by concepts, logic, language - most of us continue to think of nature as a place to visit, wearing sunscreen and suitable protective clothing. Visitors in the museum of the great outdoors" This delightful anthology features ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
22	John Clare more books like this by William James Howard add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00!
23 view cover	Good Observers of Nature: American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820-1885 more books like this by Tina Gianquitto add to wishlist In "Good Observers of Nature", Tina Gianquitto examines nineteenth-century American women's intellectual and aesthetic experience of nature and investigates the linguistic, perceptual, and scientific systems that were available to women to describe those experiences. Many women writers of this period used the natural world as a platform for ... see all copies from $12.58! new only from $18.98! \| first editions
24 view cover	Poetry, Space, Landscape: Toward a New Theory more books like this by Chris Fitter add to wishlist Why was the art of landscape painting invented in the fifth century BC, abandoned with the collapse of Rome, and revived again in the High Middle Ages? Did the Greeks, or the ancient Christians perceive the natural world differently from the way we do now? In Poetry, Space, Landscape, Chris Fitter traces the history of nature-sensibility from the ... see all copies from $57.87! new only from $57.87! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Lean Down Your Ear Upon the Earth, and Listen: Thomas Wolfe's Greener Modernism more books like this by Robert Taylor Ensign add to wishlist This ecocritical study of Thomas Wolfe's body of fiction explores how the celebrated writer's storytelling is founded on his dramatization - and apprehension - of the natural world's integral presence in human lives. see all copies from $5.46! new only from $6.00! \| first editions

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