The American Landscape: A Critical Anthology of Prose and PoetryJohn Conron Oxford University Press, 1973 - 625 pages Records the importance of the American landscape in American literature from the earliest explorations into the twentieth century. |
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E B White Walden 1939 | 7 |
Aldo Leopold from A Sand County Almanac 1949 | 17 |
Norman Mailer from Of a Fire on the Moon 1969 | 25 |
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Ambitious Guest American animals appeared banks beautiful birds blue boat camp Canyon Chéri clouds color cowboy dark deep desert distance earth eyes face feet fire forest Frémont garden glaciers Grand Grand Canyon grass green ground hand hills Hispaniola human hundred Ichabod Ichabod Crane Indian island Johnnie Karen lake Lake George land landscape leaves light living look Masked Gods miles mind morning Mount Ritter mountains nature never Nick night ocean passed peaks pine plants poetry poker prairie rain rising river road roar rock sand scene scenery Scully seemed seen shadow shore side Sky Father Sleepy Hollow snow soil spirit stone stood stream sublime Swede things thought tion town Transcendentalists trees trout turned valley walked walls West West-Running Brook whole wild wilderness wind window woods Wrecking Yard