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William Gilpin's "Picturesque" view of Tintern Abbey from Observations on the River Wye (1782) |
The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
Pastoral Poetry (Deborah Schwartz)The Sublime:
AN ENQUIRY INTO THE REASONS FOR AND AGAINST INCLOSING THE OPEN FIELDS (1767)British Romantic Nature Poets
John Clare and 'The Tragedy of the Enclosures' ("The Land Is Ours" Historical Archive site, UK)
"Pastoral and popular modes in Clare's 'enclosure elegies'" (John Goodridge)
A modern article on "Reclaiming the Commons" (David Bollier, Boston Review)
Here's another more quickly loading version of the same article
Garrett Hardin, "The Tragedy of the Commons" (with sections from "The Tragedy of the Commons Revisited")
The Science version of Hardin's "The Tragedy of the Commons" (with links to articles that cite this article)
Wordsworth:
- David Damrosch's Romanticism introduction
- Norton Anthology of World Literature Romanticism Overview: http://www.wwnorton.com/nawol/s20_overview.htm
- Romaticism Overview http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/misc/romanticov.html (Victorian Web)
- Romantic Circles: http://www.rc.umd.edu/
- Voice of the Shuttle, Romantics Page http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-rom.html
- Romanticism on the Net (an on-line journal): http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/
- Romantic Related Sites: http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/sites.shtml
- Quotes on "The nature of Nature" (David Miall)
- The Wordsworth Trust: http://www.wordsworth.org.uk/
- Lyrical Ballads (1798 Text): http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ballads.html (Univ. of Oregon)
- William Wordsworth http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/ww/wwov.html (Victorian Web)
- Tintern Abbey, Tourism, and the Romantic Landscape: http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/romantic/topic_1/welcome.htm
- Tintern Abbey and the Picturesque:
David Miall's paper on relocating the site of Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey": http://www.ualberta.ca/~dmiall/tinternl.htm
The Picturesque:John Clare:Coleridge:
- Excerpts from William Gilpin's Observations on the River Wye . . . (1782)
- David Miall's sources on "The Picturesque."
- from the second edition of Gilpin's Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty (1794)
- "Reverend William Gilpin" (a short introduction)
- "The Illustrating Traveller" (an exhibition on the Sublime and the Picturesque in America--Yale U)
Keats:
- The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/stc.html
- with on-line annotated texts of Coleridge's poems
- and a critical essay on Coleridge's conversation poems
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: http://65.107.211.206/previctorian/stc/stcov.html (Victorian Web)
- The "Real" Grecian Urn?: http://www.luc.edu/publications/keats-shelley/vase.htm
- British Library John Keats Exhibit: http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/keats.html
- A good Keats page (CUNY): http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/keats.html
- John Keats: http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/keats/keatsov.html (Victorian Web)
The John Clare page at Nottingham Trent University
John Clare and 'The Tragedy of the Enclosures' ("The Land Is Ours" Historical Archive site, UK)
"Pastoral and popular modes in Clare's 'enclosure elegies'" (John Goodridge)
"Pastoral and popular modes in Clare's 'enclosure elegies'" (Part Two--discusses "To a Fallen Elm" and "Helpstone Green")
The Thoreau Reader: The Works of Henry D. Thoreau, 1817-1862
http://eserver.org/thoreau/thoreau.html
Includes: The Maine Woods (Entire book, contents, links): http://eserver.org/thoreau/mewoods.html
Walking (Entire essay): http://eserver.org/thoreau/walking.html
And a link to A study text of Walking (Margaret M. Brulatour) http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/walking/
"Solitude": http://thoreau.eserver.org/walden05.html
Writings of Henry D. Thoreau (Project to publish all of Thoreau's journals):
- "Life and Times of Henry David Thoreau": http://www.library.ucsb.edu/thoreau/thoreau_life.html
- "Reflections on Walden": http://www.library.ucsb.edu/thoreau/thoreau_walden.html
- Transcripts of Thoreau's Journals: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/thoreau/writings_journals.html (PDF files)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Complete works, including Nature.)John Ruskin:
http://www.rwe.org/index.htmlRalph Waldo Emerson Texts (Loads slowly)
http://www.emersoncentral.com/
"Of the Pathetic Fallacy"Japanese Haiku, with emphasis on Basho:
"Ruskin's Discussion of the Pathetic Fallacy" (George Landow, Victorian Web)
Text (with notes and illustrations) of Basho's Narrow Road to the Deep North: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~kohl/basho/1-prologue/index.html (best viewed with Internet Explorer)Imagism and after:Basho's Life: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~kohl/basho/life.html
The Japanese Haiku Masters: Links, References, Resources: http://www.gardendigest.com/poetry/haiku6.htm
A History of Haiku: Before Basho and Basho
World Haiku Review: http://www.worldhaikureview.org/
Imagism (my handout with links)E. E. Cummings
American Modernist Writiers and the Orient (Yale University)
MAPS page on E. E. Cummings: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/cummings/cummings.htmGary Snyder
Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society
http://www.gvsu.edu/english/Cummings/Index.htm"Nature in the Poetry of E. E. Cummings"
"E. E. Cummings: The New Nature Poetry and the Old"
"The Osmotic Mandala: on the Nature of Boundaries in E.E. Cummings' Poetry"
MAPS page on Gary Snyder: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/snyder/snyder.htmWilderness
Wilderness Society: http://www.wilderness.org/Evolution
Wilderness.com: http://www.wilderness.com/index.asp
Evolution links: http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~avery/evolution/ (Paul Avery, Physics, U of Florida)Ecofeminism:
Evolution links: http://fp.bio.utk.edu/darwin/links/links.html (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Richard Dawkins.com: http://www.richarddawkins.com/ (Site of prominent pro-Evolution scientist)
Creationism.org: http://www.creationism.org/ (For Creationism)
Creationism.com: http://www.creationism.com/ (Against Creationism)
Evolution and Americans (1991 and 97 Gallup Poll): http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_publi.htm (scroll down)
Why people are for or against evolution: http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_proof.htm (scroll down)
The Creation Foundation (UK): http://www.creationfoundation.co.uk/index.htm
Evolution Is Dead.com: http://www.evolutionisdead.com/
Text of Darwin's Origin of Species: http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-origin-of-species/
Ecofeminism.org: www.ecofem.org
Ecofeminist Philosophy: http://www.erraticimpact.com/~ecofeminism/
Ecofeminism: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~orenstei/ecofem/ (A class web site)
Literary History.com: http://www.literaryhistory.com/index.htm (". . . an index to literary criticism on the internet, covering more than 250 English and American authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ")Sources for Electronic texts:
University of Virginia Electronic Text Center: [some access limited]Writing Links:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
University of Toronto English Library:
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/index.html
Representative Poetry Online (University of Toronto)
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/index.cfm
Project Bartleby at Columbia University:
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/index.html
Renascence Editions: An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799 http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm
P. Currah's MLA Style Guide
Citation Style for Research Papers: http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citation.htm
Calvin College's MLA Citation Machine: http://webapps.calvin.edu/knightcite/
A Handbook of Terms for Discussing Poetry (Harry Rusche)
An Approach to Reading and Writing About Poems (Deborah Schwartz)
Dictionary.com (Excellent for a commercial site)
ENG 382 Syllabus
Mike Webster's home page