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The American Landscape (1973)

The American Landscape (1973)

Literary Fiction

E. B. White, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, J. Conron, John Steinbeck, Kate Chopin, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, John Conron

Year: 1973
Authors: E. B. White, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, J. Conron, John Steinbeck, Kate Chopin, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, John Conron
Print type: BOOK

Description:

Deformations: twentieth-century landscapes of ruin. Walden / E.B. White From the Grand Canyon to Burbank (1945) / Henry Miller A Sand County Almanac / Aldo Leopold Illinois bus Ride / Aldo Leopold Thinking Like a Mountain / Aldo Leopold Silent Spring (1962) / Rachel Carson Realms of the Soil / Rachel Carson Of a Fire on the Moon (1969) / Norman Mailer A Brook in the City (1930) / Robert Frost The Mouth of the Hudson (1964) / Robert Lowell Decline and Fall (1960) / John Frederick Nims Burning Mountain (1960) / W.S. Merwin In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (1967) / William Gass The Cleveland Wrecking Yard (1967) / Richard Brautigan The Magic Poker (1969) / Robert Coover -- Early explorations. Descriptio Insularum Aquilonis (1076) / Adam of Bremen Letter ... Describing ... His First Voyage ... (1493) / Christopher Columbus Letter to the King (1524) / Giovanni da Verrazzano Decades of the New World (1533) / Peter Martyr Expedition to Cibola (1540) / Pedro de Castaneda First Voyage to Virginia (1584) / Arthur Barlowe Ode to the Virginian Voyage (?1605) / Michael Drayton Briefe and True Relation (1602) / John Brereton -- The cultivation of the promised land, 1620-1800. Of Plymouth Plantation (1620) / William Bradford Wonder-Working Providence of Sion's Saviour in New England (1653) / Edward Johnson The History and Present State of Virginia (1705) / Robert Beverely Letters from an American Farmer (1782) / Hector St. Jean De Crevecoeur -- Eighteenth-century perspectives: natural history and the sublime. Travels (1791) [A Trip up the Altamaha River] / William Bartram Travels (1791) [Ephemera: St. John's River] / William Bartram Travels (1791) [Salt Springs] / William Bartram Travels (1791) [A Sylvan Scene] / William Bartram Notes on Virginia (1784) [The Confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers] / Thomas Jefferson Notes on Virginia (1784) [The Natural Bridge, Virginia] / Thomas Jefferson -- Poetry of scene: an American grand tour. View from West Point (1840) / Nathaniel Willis The Canal Boat (1846) / Nathaniel Hawthorne The Book of Niagara Falls / Horatio Parsons Black Mountain-Lake George (1840) / Nathaniel Willis from Travels in New England and New York (1821-1822) / Timothy Dwight Notch of the White Mountains (1835) / Nathaniel Hawthorne The American Scene (1907) / Henry James -- Landscape in the great theater of human events. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) / Washington Irving from The Last of the Mohicans (1826) / James Fenimore Cooper -- Landscape as idea: the transcendentalists. From Walden (1854) / Henry David Thoreau from Cape Cod (1864) / Henry David Thoreau from The Maine Woods (1864) / Henry David Thoreau from The Mountains of California (1894) / John Muir A Wind-storm in the Forests / John Muir -- Landscape as idea: romantic prose and poetry. Sights from a Steeple (1831) / Nathaniel Hawthorne The Ambitious Guest (1835) / Nathaniel Hawthorne [Island of the Fay](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645993W)(1841) / Edgar Allan Poe from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845) / Frederick Douglass A Forest Hymn (1825) / William Cullen Bryant Each and All (1839) / Ralph Waldo Emerson Haze (1843) / Henry David Thoreau Low-Anchored Cloud (1843) / Henry David Thoreau #824: The Wind begun to knead the Grass (?1864) / Emily Dickinson #550: I cross til I am weary (?1862) / Emily Dickenson #797: By my window I have for Scenery (?1863) / Emily Dickinson #1278: The Mountains stood in Haze- (?1873) / Emily Dickinson #1343: A single Clover Plank (?1875) / Emily Dickinson When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (1865) / Walt Whitman Song of the Redwood-Tree (1874) / Walt Whitman A Voice from Death (1889) / Walt Whitman -- The ways west: explorers, travelers and emigrants. From The Journals of Lewis and Clark (1809) / Meriwether Lewis from Travels in the Interior of North America (1839) / Prince Maximilian from Astoria (1836) / Washington Irving from Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains (1845) / John C. Fremont from Across the Great Southwestern Prairies (1845) / George W. Kendall from The Discovery of Yellowstone Park (1905) / Nathaniel Pitt Langford from The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (1895) / John Wesley Powell from The Grand Canyon (1895) / John Wesley Powell from Roughing It (1872) / Mark Twain from Specimen Days (1822) / Walt Whitman from The West from a Car Window (1892) / Richard Harding Davis from the Central Gold Region (1860) / William Gilpin Dakota Wheat Fields (1880) / C.C. Coffin from Old Jules (1935) / Mari Sandoz from The Octopus (1901) / Frank Norris from The Grapes of Wrath (1939) / John Steinbeck -- Landscape as environment: local color landscapes. The Luck of Roaring Camp (1868) / Bret Harte [Beyond The Bayou ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14943640W)(1894) / Kate Chopin -- Landscapes as antagonist: the literary naturalists. The Blue Hotel (1898) / Stephen Crane from The Wild Palms (1927) / William Faulkner -- Landscape into myth and ritual. From Masked Gods (1950) / Frank Waters The Rock / Frank Waters The Canyon / Frank Waters Creation Myth Night Chant (Navaho) Rain Song (Pima) Big Swamps of the Congaree The Promised Land Big Corn from Mules and Men (1935) / Zora Neale Hurston form The Wounds of Jesus / The Reverend D.C. Lovelace from Davy Crockett (1934) / Constance Rourke -- Affirming the ancient connections: twentieth-century symbiotic landscapes. Big Two-Hearted River (1925) Part 1 Big Two-Hearted River (1925) Part 2 Night in the Garden (1942) / Edwin Way Teale The Flow of the River (1957) / Loren Eiseley Alone on a Mountaintop (1960) / Jack Kerouac The priest of the Sun (1958) / N. Scott Momaday Flowers by the Sea (1935) / William Carlos Williams Dawn (1917) / William Carlos Williams The Trees (1934) / William Carlos Williams Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly (1954) / Wallace Stevens The Snow Man (1923) / Wallace Stevens Desert Places (1939) / Robert Frost Directive (1949) / Robert Frost West-Running Brook (1930) / Robert Frost Apology for Bad Dreams (1930) / Robinson Jeffers Meditation at Oyster River (1960) / Theodore Roethke A Road in Kentucky (1966) / Robert Hayden Ballad of Nat Turner (1966) / Robert Hayden Oak (1972) / Michael S. Harper Dead Oaks (1972) / Michael S. Harper Conserving the Magnitude of Uselessness (1970) / A.R. Ammons Possibility Along a line of Difference / A.R. Ammons The Hummingbird (1972) / Robert Pack Make Way (1973) / Robert Pack A Tree Telling of Orpheus (1966) / Denise Levertov Advent (?1949) / Brother Antoninus The South Coast (1959) / Brother Antoninus.