The American Landscape

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

Subjects: Landscapes in literature, Literary collections, Landscape, Landscapes, Fiction, Social life and customs, American literature

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.