I hope the survey has now been wide enough to make the reader willing to believe that the treatment of nature in Old English poetry, in this its first manifestation, is something distinct ...

Wheatley learned English, Greek and Latin ... Some of the poems selected don't immediately seem to be about nature. A poem titled "[#12]," from a collection by Evie Shockley called 31 words ...

Until his dad helps him understand that nature is ... these little Emile poems," he says. "A good what they call slant-rhyme, or off-rhyme, I think really speaks to how English can sound.

In its intimacy, its revelation not just of nature but also of the perceiving self, nature poems offer one of the few paths we have to consider the risks to the natural world in a way that is free ...

Wheatley learned English, Greek and Latin ... is there." Some of the poems in Black Nature are delicate, or hilarious. Dungy points to poem by Tim Seibles, written from the perspective of a ...