The American Landscape
Subtitle: a critical anthology of prose and poetry.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 625
ISBN-13: 9780195017670
Copyright date: 1974
Subjects: Landscape -- Literary collections; American literature
Notes: Bibliography: p. 616-625.
Table of contents: title: Deformations: twentieth-century landscapes of ruin.; title: Walden / E.B. White; title: From the Grand Canyon to Burbank (1945) / Henry Miller; title: A Sand County Almanac / Aldo Leopold; title: Illinois bus Ride / Aldo Leopold; title: Thinking Like a Mountain / Aldo Leopold; title: Silent Spring (1962) / Rachel Carson; title: Realms of the Soil / Rachel Carson; title: Of a Fire on the Moon (1969) / Norman Mailer; title: A Brook in the City (1930) / Robert Frost; title: The Mouth of the Hudson (1964) / Robert Lowell; title: Decline and Fall (1960) / John Frederick Nims; title: Burning Mountain (1960) / W.S. Merwin; title: In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (1967) / William Gass; title: The Cleveland Wrecking Yard (1967) / Richard Brautigan; title: The Magic Poker (1969) / Robert Coover --; title: Early explorations.; title: Descriptio Insularum Aquilonis (1076) / Adam of Bremen; title: Letter ... Describing ... His First Voyage ... (1493) / Christopher Columbus; title: Letter to the King (1524) / Giovanni da Verrazzano; title: Decades of the New World (1533) / Peter Martyr; title: Expedition to Cibola (1540) / Pedro de Castaneda; title: First Voyage to Virginia (1584) / Arthur Barlowe; title: Ode to the Virginian Voyage (?1605) / Michael Drayton; title: Briefe and True Relation (1602) / John Brereton --; title: The cultivation of the promised land, 1620-1800.; title: Of Plymouth Plantation (1620) / William Bradford; title: Wonder-Working Providence of Sion's Saviour in New England (1653) / Edward Johnson; title: The History and Present State of Virginia (1705) / Robert Beverely; title: Letters from an American Farmer (1782) / Hector St. Jean De Crevecoeur --; title: Eighteenth-century perspectives: natural history and the sublime.; title: Travels (1791) [A Trip up the Altamaha River] / William Bartram; title: Travels (1791) [Ephemera: St. John's River] / William Bartram; title: Travels (1791) [Salt Springs] / William Bartram; title: Travels (1791) [A Sylvan Scene] / William Bartram; title: Notes on Virginia (1784) [The Confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers] / Thomas Jefferson; title: Notes on Virginia (1784) [The Natural Bridge, Virginia] / Thomas Jefferson --; title: Poetry of scene: an American grand tour.; title: View from West Point (1840) / Nathaniel Willis; title: The Canal Boat (1846) / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: The Book of Niagara Falls / Horatio Parsons; title: Black Mountain-Lake George (1840) / Nathaniel Willis; title: from Travels in New England and New York (1821-1822) / Timothy Dwight; title: Notch of the White Mountains (1835) / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: The American Scene (1907) / Henry James --; title: Landscape in the great theater of human events.; title: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) / Washington Irving; title: from The Last of the Mohicans (1826) / James Fenimore Cooper --; title: Landscape as idea: the transcendentalists.; title: From Walden (1854) / Henry David Thoreau; title: from Cape Cod (1864) / Henry David Thoreau; title: from The Maine Woods (1864) / Henry David Thoreau; title: from The Mountains of California (1894) / John Muir; title: A Wind-storm in the Forests / John Muir --; title: Landscape as idea: romantic prose and poetry.; title: Sights from a Steeple (1831) / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: The Ambitious Guest (1835) / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: The Island of the Fay (1841) / Edgar Allan Poe; title: from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845) / Frederick Douglass; title: A Forest Hymn (1825) / William Cullen Bryant; title: Each and All (1839) / Ralph Waldo Emerson; title: Haze (1843) / Henry David Thoreau; title: Low-Anchored Cloud (1843) / Henry David Thoreau; title: #824: The Wind begun to knead the Grass (?1864) / Emily Dickinson; title: #550: I cross til I am weary (?1862) / Emily Dickenson; title: #797: By my window I have for Scenery (?1863) / Emily Dickinson; title: #1278: The Mountains stood in Haze- (?1873) / Emily Dickinson; title: #1343: A single Clover Plank (?1875) / Emily Dickinson; title: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (1865) / Walt Whitman; title: Song of the Redwood-Tree (1874) / Walt Whitman; title: A Voice from Death (1889) / Walt Whitman --; title: The ways west: explorers, travelers and emigrants.; title: From The Journals of Lewis and Clark (1809) / Meriwether Lewis; title: from Travels in the Interior of North America (1839) / Prince Maximilian; title: from Astoria (1836) / Washington Irving; title: from Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains (1845) / John C. Fremont; title: from Across the Great Southwestern Prairies (1845) / George W. Kendall; title: from The Discovery of Yellowstone Park (1905) / Nathaniel Pitt Langford; title: from The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (1895) / John Wesley Powell; title: from The Grand Canyon (1895) / John Wesley Powell; title: from Roughing It (1872) / Mark Twain; title: from Specimen Days (1822) / Walt Whitman; title: from The West from a Car Window (1892) / Richard Harding Davis; title: from the Central Gold Region (1860) / William Gilpin; title: Dakota Wheat Fields (1880) / C.C. Coffin; title: from Old Jules (1935) / Mari Sandoz; title: from The Octopus (1901) / Frank Norris; title: from The Grapes of Wrath (1939) / John Steinbeck --; title: Landscape as environment: local color landscapes.; title: The Luck of Roaring Camp (1868) / Bret Harte; title: Beyond The Bayou (1894) / Kate Chopin --; title: Landscapes as antagonist: the literary naturalists.; title: The Blue Hotel (1898) / Stephen Crane; title: from The Wild Palms (1927) / William Faulkner --; title: Landscape into myth and ritual.; title: From Masked Gods (1950) / Frank Waters; title: The Rock / Frank Waters; title: The Canyon / Frank Waters; title: Creation Myth; title: Night Chant (Navaho); title: Rain Song (Pima); title: Big Swamps of the Congaree; title: The Promised Land; title: Big Corn; title: from Mules and Men (1935) / Zora Neale Hurston; title: form The Wounds of Jesus / The Reverend D.C. Lovelace; title: from Davy Crockett (1934) / Constance Rourke --; title: Affirming the ancient connections: twentieth-century symbiotic landscapes.; title: Big Two-Hearted River (1925) Part 1; title: Big Two-Hearted River (1925) Part 2; title: Night in the Garden (1942) / Edwin Way Teale; title: The Flow of the River (1957) / Loren Eiseley; title: Alone on a Mountaintop (1960) / Jack Kerouac; title: The priest of the Sun (1958) / N. Scott Momaday; title: Flowers by the Sea (1935) / William Carlos Williams; title: Dawn (1917) / William Carlos Williams; title: The Trees (1934) / William Carlos Williams; title: Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly (1954) / Wallace Stevens; title: The Snow Man (1923) / Wallace Stevens; title: Desert Places (1939) / Robert Frost; title: Directive (1949) / Robert Frost; title: West-Running Brook (1930) / Robert Frost; title: Apology for Bad Dreams (1930) / Robinson Jeffers; title: Meditation at Oyster River (1960) / Theodore Roethke; title: A Road in Kentucky (1966) / Robert Hayden; title: Ballad of Nat Turner (1966) / Robert Hayden; title: Oak (1972) / Michael S. Harper; title: Dead Oaks (1972) / Michael S. Harper; title: Conserving the Magnitude of Uselessness (1970) / A.R. Ammons; title: Possibility Along a line of Difference / A.R. Ammons; title: The Hummingbird (1972) / Robert Pack; title: Make Way (1973) / Robert Pack; title: A Tree Telling of Orpheus (1966) / Denise Levertov; title: Advent (?1949) / Brother Antoninus; title: The South Coast (1959) / Brother Antoninus.