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Jan 11, 2024 · Finally, the anthological classic in the field, the Norton Book of Nature Writing, turns its gaze to the history of natural history. In the introduction we find the statement: “Nature writers are the children of Linnaeus” (Finch and Elder 2002, 21), meaning Linnaeus’ taxonomic system, presented in his treatise Systema Naturae, first ...
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After suffering a serious stroke in 1873, Whitman moved to his brother’s home in Camden, New Jersey. While his poetry failed to garner popular attention from his American readership during his lifetime, over 1,000 people came to view his funeral. And as the first writer of a truly American poetry, Whitman’s legacy endures.
The Natural History (Latin: Naturalis Historia) is a Latin work by Pliny the Elder. The largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire to the modern day, the Natural History compiles information gleaned from other ancient authors. Despite the work's title, its subject area is not limited to what is today understood by natural ...
The collection of Barrack-Room Ballads was issued in March 1892, first published individually for the most part in 1890, and contained his poems "Mandalay" and "Gunga Din". He especially enjoyed writing the Jungle Books and also corresponding with many children who wrote to him about them.
Another early illustrated work of nature writing was A History of British Birds by Thomas Bewick, published in two volumes. Volume 1, "Land Birds", appeared in 1797. Volume 2, "Water Birds", appeared in 1804. The book was considered to be the first "field guide" for non-specialists. Bewick provided an accurate illustration of each species ...
terial lessons of natural history and the emergent natural sciences through - out his long career (x). In organizing this much needed and thorough col-lection of Emerson’s most significant nature writings, Branch and Mohs redress this problem by first turning attention to the lesser-known natural history writings that precede Nature. These ...
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There, in the little room in the southern gable, since known as the Prophet's Chamber, where later Hawthorne wrote the Mosses from an Old Manse, he worked on his book. Mr. Cabot in his Memoir1 1.1 says that probably the first five chapters had been for some time in hand, that the seventh and eighth chapters seem to have been written after his removal to Concord, and the sixth (Idealism) last ...
