Links for Nature Writing

Links for Nature Writing ENG 382

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)

Introduction to Ecocriticism (Articles introducing the field to students and non-specialists)
Environmental Writers (Links to sites on various writers, mostly American)

Pastoral

Pastoral Poetry (Deborah Schwartz)

The Sublime:

from Edmund Burke's A Philosophical Inquiry into the Sublime and the Beautiful
"The Sublime" (from the Victorian Web)

William Blake links: http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/BlakeLinks.html

Enclosures and the commons

AN ENQUIRY INTO THE REASONS FOR AND AGAINST INCLOSING THE OPEN FIELDS (1767)
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)

British Romantic Nature Poets

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)

Wordsworth:

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:

http://vi.uh.edu/pages/tintern/tint1txt.html

http://www.tintern41.freeserve.co.uk/abbey2.htm

http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/tinturn.htm

David Miall's paper on relocating the site of Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey": http://www.ualberta.ca/~dmiall/tinternl.htm

The Picturesque:

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)

Coleridge:

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)

Keats:

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)

John Clare:

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")

George Catlin

Medicine Painter: George Catlin on the Upper Missouri, 1832: http://www.ucdp.uc.edu/exhibits/catlin/catweb.html
Catlin’s sketch of a buffalo: http://www.ucdp.uc.edu/exhibits/catlin/catweb_page13.html

Transcendentalists

American Transcendentalism Web: http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/index.html
Overview and Definitions of American Transcendentalism: http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/amtrans.htm

Henry David Thoreau

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

climbing Mount Ktaadn, 1

climbing Mount Ktaadn, 2

on logging and establishing nature preserves

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.)
http://www.rwe.org/index.html
Ralph Waldo Emerson Texts (Loads slowly)
http://www.emersoncentral.com/

John Ruskin:

"Of the Pathetic Fallacy"
"Ruskin's Discussion of the Pathetic Fallacy" (George Landow, Victorian Web)

Japanese Haiku, with emphasis on Basho:

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)
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 and after:

Imagism (my handout with links)
American Modernist Writiers and the Orient (Yale University)

E. E. Cummings

MAPS page on E. E. Cummings: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/cummings/cummings.htm

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"

Gary Snyder

MAPS page on Gary Snyder: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/snyder/snyder.htm

Wilderness

Wilderness Society: http://www.wilderness.org/
Wilderness.com: http://www.wilderness.com/index.asp

Evolution

Evolution links: http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~avery/evolution/ (Paul Avery, Physics, U of Florida)
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:

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 Criticism on the Internet:

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]
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

Writing Links:

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)

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