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Nature Poems
African Nature Poets (19th–Early 20th century)
Adeleke Adeequaye
Ayi Kwei Armah
Bessie Head
David C Okwuosa
Gabriel Okara
Gwendolyn Brooks
JP Clark-Bekederemo
Julius Nyerere
Kwame Nkrumah
Léopold Sédar Senghor
Nadine Gordimer
Oda Ndukkor
Ossie Mthembu
Thomas Mofolo
Wole Soyinka
American Modernism and Nature (1910s–1930s)
Amy Lowell
Carl Sandburg
Edna St Vincent Millay
HD Hilda Doolittle
John Crowe Ransom
John Masefield
Langston Hughes
Louis MacNeice
Marianne Moore
Robert Frost
Sara Teasdale
Stephen Spender
TS Eliot
Wallace Stevens
William Carlos Williams
American Nature Haiku Movement (1910s–1930s)
Aline Murray Kilmer
Amy Lowell
Carl Sandburg
E E Cummings
Elizabeth Bishop
Hilda Doolittle HD
James W Hackett
Lola Ridge
Louise Bogan
Marion S S C Smith
Masaoka Shiki
Muriel Rukeyser
Richard Wright
William Carlos Williams
Yone Noguchi
American Nature Poets (19th century)
Emily Dickinson
Henry David Thoreau
James Russell Lowell
John Burroughs
John Muir
Joyce Kilmer
Langston Hughes
Lizette Woodworth Reese
Marianne Moore
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
Robert Frost
Sidney Lanier
Wallace Stevens
Walt Whitman
William Carlos Williams
American Realism and Nature Poetry (Late 19th–Early 20th century)
Alice Walker
Annie Dillard
Carl Sandburg
Edna St Vincent Millay
Emily Dickinson
James Weldon Johnson
John Burroughs
Langston Hughes
Marianne Moore
Robert Frost
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sarah Orne Jewett
Stephen Crane
Walt Whitman
William Carlos Williams
Anthropocentric Nature Poetry (Early 20th century)
A R Ammons
Carl Sandburg
D H Lawrence
Edna St Vincent Millay
HD Hilda Doolittle
James Wright
John Muir
Lanford Wilson
Marianne Moore
Mary Oliver
Robert Frost
Stephen Spender
Ted Hughes
Wallace Stevens
William Carlos Williams
British Nature Poetry (19th century)
A E Housman
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Emily Brontë
George Meredith
Gerard Manley Hopkins
John Clare
John Keats
Lord Byron
Matthew Arnold
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Jefferies
Robert Browning
William Blake
William Wordsworth
British Neo-Romanticism (Early 20th century)
David Jones
Edward Thomas
George Mackay Brown
Ivor Gurney
John Betjeman
John Masefield
Julian Grenfell
Laurence Binyon
Mary Webb
Philip Larkin
Ruth Padel
W H Auden
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
William Blake
Canadian Nature Poets (Late 19th–Early 20th century)
AJM Smith
Archibald Lampman
Bliss Carman
Charles GD Roberts
Duncan Campbell Scott
EJ Pratt
Franklin P Adams
George William Russell
Isabella Valancy Crawford
Jean Blewett
Lillian B Miller
Marjorie Pickthall
Rosa Zagnoni Marinone
William Wilfred Campbell
Classical Haiku (Bashō, Buson, Issa)
Fujita Rintarō
Ishikawa Takuboku
Kaga no Chiyo
Kato Shuson
Kikaku
Kobayashi Issa
Masaoka Shiki
Matsuo Bashō
Miyazawa Kenji
Natsume Sōseki
Takahama Kyoshi
Taneda Santōka
Yamaguchi Seishi
Yosa Buson
Yoshinobu Hoshino
Dadaism and Nature (1910s–1920s)
Alice Toklas
Andre Breton
Dadas Rallying Poets
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Francis Picabia
Friedrich Hölderlin
Hugo Ball
Kurt Schwitters
Louis Aragon
Marcel Duchamp
Max Ernst
Paul Éluard
Richard Huelsenbeck
Tristan Tzara
William Carlos Williams
Early Eco-Poetry and Nature (Early 20th century)
AR Ammons
DH Lawrence
EE Cummings
HD Hilda Doolittle
John Claire
Joyce Kilmer
Langston Hughes
Louis MacNeice
Marianne Moore
Muriel Rukeyser
Robert Bly
Robert Frost
Ted Hughes
Wallace Stevens
William Carlos Williams
Early Haiku Masters (17th–18th centuries)
Ajari Sōgi
Chiyo-ni
Kaga Chiyo
Kikaku
Kobayashi Issa
Matsumura Gekkei
Matsuo Bashō
Matsuo Bashōs disciples
Nishiyama Sōin
Ryōkan
Shiki Masaoka
Sōseki Natsume
Takahashi Shinkyō
Taneda Santōka
Yosa Buson
Ecofeminist Poetry and Nature (Late 19th–Early 20th century)
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alice Dunbar Nelson
Amy Lowell
Constance Fennell
Edna St Vincent Millay
Emily Dickinson
Gertrude Stein
HD Hilda Doolittle
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Laura Riding Jackson
Louise Bogan
Margaret Atwood early works
Marianne Moore
Sara Teasdale
Virginia Woolf
Ecosophy in Poetry (Early 20th century)
A E George William Russell
AR Ammons
DH Lawrence
Edna St Vincent Millay
HD Hilda Doolittle
John Muir
Lao Tzu
Marianne Moore
Mary Oliver
Robert Duncan
Robert Frost
T S Eliot
Wallace Stevens
William Butler Yeats
William Carlos Williams
French Realism and Nature (Mid 19th century)
Albert Samain
Alfred de Musset
Catulle Mendès
Charles Baudelaire
François Coppée
Gustave Flaubert
Jules Claretie
Louis Ménard
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Octave Mirbeau
Paul Adam
Paul Verlaine
Théophile Gautier
Victor Hugo
Émile Zola
French Romanticism and Nature (Early 19th century)
Alfred de Musset
Alfred de Vigny
Alphonse de Lamartine
André Chenier
Charles Baudelaire
Gustave Flaubert
Gérard de Nerval
Hippolyte Taine
Jules Claretie
Louise Colet
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Marie de France
Paul Verlaine
Théodore de Banville
Victor Hugo
Futurism and Nature (Early 20th century)
Aldo Palazzeschi
Antonio SantElia
Corrado Govoni
Ettore Cozzani
FT Marinetti
Giorgio de Chirico
Giuseppe Ravegnani
Guido Gozzano
Margherita Sarfatti
Marinetti Filippo Tommaso
Mario Carli
Polia de Montalcini
Umberto Boccioni
Umberto Saba
Vincent Pieter
Haikai no Renga Tradition
Hoshinaga Fumiko
Kato Shuson
Kawai Hayao
Kobayashi Hekigetsu
Kobayashi Issa
Matsuo Bashō
Mizuhara Shūgetsu
Natsume Sōseki
Seki Gakuin
Shiki Masaoka
Takamura Kōtarō
Taneda Santōka
Tōkō Sōseki
Yamaguchi Seishi
Yosa Buson
Haiku and Zen Buddhism
Akao Hideo
Chiyo-ni
Higashi Dōan
Kobayashi Issa
Masaoka Shiki
Matsuo Bashō
Natsume Sōseki
Ono no Komachi
Saitō Mokichi
Seishi Yamaguchi
Shiki Kōrin
Shiki Takahashi
Takarai Kikaku
Yamazaki Sōgen
Yosa Buson
Haiku as a Popular Literary Form (Late 19th century)
Hayashi Fumiko
Hoshino Tomo
Kato Shuson
Kikaku
Kikuchi Kan
Kobayashi Issa
Masaoka Shiki
Natsume Sōseki
Saito Mokichi
Seishi Yamaguchi
Shiki Masaoka
Takamaatsu Shōji
Taneda Santoka
Tateishi Harumi
Yamaguchi Seishi
Haiku in the Edo Period (1603–1868)
Hōson Takahama
Kaga no Chiyo
Kobayashi Issa
Kōji Sōkan
Masaoka Shiki
Matsumura Kōei
Matsuo Bashō
Nonomura Nantenbo
Shōtō Hiragushi
Takarai Kikaku
Tawara Sōjō
Tōkaidō Shōmei
Ueda Akinari
Yayoi Soen
Yosa Buson
Haiku in the English-Speaking World (Early 20th century)
Amy Lowell
Cynthia Zarin
Dominic James
Ezra Pound
Harold G Henderson
James W Hackett
Katherine Mansfield
Marion Strobel
RH Blyth
Richard Wright
Sidney Parker
T S Eliot
William Carlos Williams
William Ernest Henley
Yone Noguchi
Haiku in the Meiji Period (1868–1912)
Fukuda Chiyo-ni
Hekigasya Ogura
Higashi Gaza Trasios
Ishikawa Takuboku
Kikuchi Kan
Kobayashi Issa
Masaoka Shiki
Miyazaki Tōten
Nakanishi Suzuki-kō
Natsume Soseki
Saito Mokichi
Takahama Kyoshi
Tatsuji Ameno
Yamakawa Kenji
Yosano Akiko
Imagism's Influence on Nature (Early 20th century)
Amy Lowell
Dora Male
Eleanor Ross Taylor
Ezra Pound
Georgian Poets various
HD Hilda Doolittle
J Alfred Prufrock TS Eliot
John Gould Fletcher
Louis MacNeice
Marianne Moore
Richard Aldington
Robert Frost
Wallace Stevens
William Butler Yeats
William Carlos Williams
Imagist Movement and Nature (Early 20th century)
Amy Lowell
Carl Sandburg
D H Lawrence
Evelyn Scott
Ezra Pound
George Edward Woodberry
HD Hilda Doolittle
James Joyce
John Gould Fletcher
Laura Riding
Marianne Moore
Richard Aldington
Sidney Keyes
T E Hulme
William Carlos Williams
Kyōka Haiku
Hiraga Gennai
Ishikawa Takuboku
Kagawa Kunitaka
Katsura Yoshihiro
Kitasono Katue
Kiyoshi Takahama
Kobayashi Issa
Kobayashi Seishi
Mizuno Kōen
Nakagawa Shunsei
Saito Mokichi
Shiki Masaoka
Taneda Santōka
Yamada Tatea
Yosa Buson
Lyrical Nature Writing (Late 19th–Early 20th century)
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Bertolt Brecht
Edward Thomas
Emily Dickinson
Hilda Doolittle HD
John Keats
John Muir
Louise McNeill
Mina Loy
Nature poetry of A E Housman
Rainer Maria Rilke
Robert Frost
Sara Teasdale
Walt Whitman
William Butler Yeats
Modern Japanese Haiku (20th century)
Fukasawa Shihei
Ishikawa Takuboku
Kato Shuson
Kobayashi Issa
Kobayashi Kiyoshi
Masaoka Shiki
Natsume Sōseki
Saito Mokichi
Shikis disciple Takahama Kyoshi
Shima Seiken
Takahashi Narihara
Takashi Hiraide
Taneda Santōka
Yamaguchi Seishi
Yosa Buson
Modern Nature Poetry in Poland (Early 20th century)
Antoni Słonimski
Bolesław Leśmian
Halina Poświatowska
Jan Lechoń
Julian Tuwim
Juliusz Słowacki
Kazimierz Wierzyński
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska
Mieczysław Wojnicz
Nadia Słobodzian
Tadeusz Kubiak
Tadeusz Różewicz
Witold Gombrowicz
Władysław Broniewski
Zofia Nałkowska
Modern Nature Poetry in South America
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Alejandra Zambra
Blanca Varela
Cecilia Vicuña
Ezequiel Martínez Estrada
Francisco de Quevedo
Gabriela Mistral
Gonzalo Rojas
Jorge Luis Borges
Leopoldo Marechal
María Pizarro
María Rosa Lojo
Octavio Paz
Pablo Neruda
Silvina Ocampo
Modernist Nature Writing in Italy (Early 20th century)
Aldo Palazzeschi
Antonia Pozzi
Cecilia Ludovica Morandini
Eugenio Montale
Fernando Pessoa in Italian translation
Gino Bartali
Giorgio Caproni
Giovanni Pascoli
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Margherita Guidacci
Maria Luisa Spaziani
Salvatore Quasimodo
Torrenti Orazio
Umberto Saba
Vincenzo Cardarelli
Modernist Nature Writing in Spain (1920s)
Antonio Machado
Blas de Otero
Carmen Conde
Dámaso Alonso
Gabriela Mistral
Jorge Guillén
José Hierro
José Ángel Valente
Luis Cernuda
Luis de Góngora
María Zambrano
Octavio Paz
Rafael Alberti
Vicente Aleixandre
Ángel González
Naturalism (Late 19th century)
Frank Norris
Gustave Flaubert
Henry Adams
Henry James
Herman Melville
Jack London
John Dewey
Marianne Moore
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Rudyard Kipling
Sarah Orne Jewett
Stephen Crane
Theodore Dreiser
Willa Cather
Émile Zola
Nature Poetry in the British Romantic Period (1800–1850)
Charlotte Smith
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
George Gordon Lord Byron
Hannah More
John Clare
John Gibson Lockhart
John Keats
Matthew Arnold
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Robert Southey
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Thomas Hood
William Blake
William Hazlitt
William Wordsworth
Nature as Political Allegory (Early 20th century)
AR Ammons
Carl Sandburg
Dylan Thomas
Elizabeth Bishop
Ezra Pound
Gertrude Stein
HD Hilda Doolittle
John Keats
Langston Hughes
Marianne Moore
Robert Frost
TS Eliot
Wallace Stevens
William Carlos Williams
Yvor Winters
Nature in New Zealand Poetry (Late 19th–Early 20th century)
A R D Fairburn
C H W L Hursthouse
E A McKinney
G L D Mackay
Helen M B M Maud
J C R Selwyn
Kate Bush
L M T Aitken
M H McGlashan
Margaret Munro
N Nu Maoridom
P E J M Taylor
R E D Evans
Ruth Dallas
Thomas Bracken
Nature in Russian Symbolism (Late 19th century)
Alexander Blok
Alexei Kruchyonykh
Andrei Bely
Anna Akhmatova
Daniil Kharms
Fyodor Sologub
Igor Severyanin
Ilya Ehrenburg
Konstantin Balmont
Marina Tsvetaeva
Mina Loy
Nikolai Gumilyov
Valery Bryusov
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Solovyov
Post-Impressionist Poets and Nature (Late 19th–Early 20th century)
Alfred Edward Housman
David Herbert Lawrence
Edna St Vincent Millay
Edward Thomas
Gwendolyn Brooks
Hilda Doolittle HD
James Elroy Flecker
John Keats
John Masefield
Marianne Moore
Robert Frost
Stephen Spender
T S Eliot
W H Auden
William Butler Yeats
Post-Romantic Nature in European Poetry (Mid 19th century)
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Emily Dickinson
George Meredith
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Hermann Hesse
John Clare
John Keats
Jules Laforgue
Matthew Arnold
Rainer Maria Rilke
Robert Browning
Thomas Hardy
Walt Whitman
Psychological Nature Poetry (20th century)
Alice Walker
Anne Sexton
Dylan Thomas
Elizabeth Bishop
Frank OHara
Gary Snyder
John Keats
Joni Mitchell
Lorine Niedecker
Marianne Moore
Mary Oliver
Philip Larkin
Rainer Maria Rilke
Robert Bly
Robert Frost
Sylvia Plath
Ted Hughes
WS Merwin
Wallace Stevens
William Carlos Williams
William Stafford
Renaissance Nature Poetry (16th century)
Andrew Marvell
Ben Jonson
George Herbert
Henry Vaughan
John Davies
John Donne
John Milton
Lady Mary Wroth
Michael Drayton
Richard Crashaw
Robert Herrick
Robert Southwell
Sir Philip Sidney
Thomas Campion
William Shakespeare
Romanticism (Late 18th–Mid-19th century)
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Charlotte Smith
Emily Dickinson
George Gordon Lord Byron
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Clare
John Keats
Lord Byron
Mary Wollstonecraft
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Robert Burns
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Blake
William Hazlitt
William Wordsworth
Romanticized Nature Poetry in Colonial Contexts (19th century)
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Emily Dickinson
George Gordon Lord Byron
Henry David Thoreau
Herman Melville
James Russell Lowell
John Keats
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Robert Browning
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Thomas Hardy
Walt Whitman
William Wordsworth
Scandinavian Nature Poetry (Late 19th century)
Aasta Holth
Anna Maria Møller
Carl Michael Bellman
Edvard Munch
Elin Wägner
Gerhard Gran
Gunnar Ekelöf
Hjalmar Hegner
Johan Ludvig Runeberg
Karin Boye
Nils Collett Vogt
Ragnar Knutson
Sigbjørn Obstfelder
Sigrid Unset
Thomas S P S Munch
Shiki's Modern Haiku Movement
Fujimoto Shōshū
Futatsuya Shunsai
Kato Shuson
Kawabata Yasunari
Kikaku
Kobayashi Issa
Mako Fujimori
Masaoka Shiki
Matsuo Basho
Natsume Sōseki
Saito Mokichi
Shikis contemporary Takahama Kyoshi
Taneda Santōka
Yamaguchi Seishi
Yoshinaga Taketoshi
Symbolist Nature Poetry (19th–20th century)
Anna Akhmatova
Arthur Rimbaud
Charles Baudelaire
Derek Walcott
Guillevic
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Marcel Proust
Nathalie Sarraute
Paul Verlaine
Rainer Maria Rilke
Richard Wagner
Stéphane Mallarmé
Tristan Tzara
Valery Briussov
Yves Tanguy
The Beat Generation and Nature (1940s–1950s)
Allen Ginsberg
Anne Waldman
Diane di Prima
Gary Snyder
Gregory Corso
Jack Kerouac
Joyce Johnson
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Michael McClure
Philip Lamantia
Philip Whalen
Robert Creeley
Ted Berrigan
W S Merwin
The Bloomsbury Group and Nature (1910s–1930s)
Christopher Isherwood
David Garnett
Duncan Grant
E M Forster
Hope Mirrlees
John Maynard Keynes
Lytton Strachey
Marianne Moore
Robert Graves
Roger Fry
Siegfried Sassoon
T E Lawrence
T S Eliot
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf poetry
The Chicago Imagists (1920s–1930s)
Carl Sandburg
Edna St Vincent Millay
HD Hilda Doolittle
James Wright
Lorine Niedecker
Louise Bogan
Marianne Moore
Marigold Johnson
Richard Wright
Robert Creeley
Robert Lowell
TS Eliot
Wallace Stevens
William Butler Yeats
William Carlos Williams
The French Symbolist Movement (Late 19th century)
Albert Samain
Alexandre Blok
Anna de Noailles
Arthur Rimbaud
Charles Baudelaire
Gustave Kahn
Henri Cazalis
Henri de Régnier
Jean Moréas
Marcel Proust
Maurice Maeterlinck
Paul Claudel
Paul Verlaine
Stéphane Mallarmé
Émile Verhaeren
The Haiku Influence on Modern Nature Poetry (1910s–1920s)
Alice Walker
Amy Lowell
Carl Sandburg
Edna St Vincent Millay
Ezra Pound
HD Hilda Doolittle
John Gould Fletcher
Joyce Kilmer
Langston Hughes
Marianne Moore
Richard Aldington
Robert Frost
T S Eliot
Wallace Stevens
William Carlos Williams
The Hudson River School Poets (19th century)
Andrew Jackson Downing
Emily Dickinson
George William Curtis
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
James Fenimore Cooper
James Russell Lowell
John Burroughs
John G Whittier
Lydia Sigourney
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
Philip Freneau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
William Cullen Bryant
William Ellery Channing
The Lake Poets and Nature (1790s–1820s)
Charles Lamb
Dorothy Wordsworth
Felicia Hemans
George Gordon Byron Lord Byron
Hartley Coleridge
Henry Kirke White
John Clare
John Keats
Matthew Arnold
Mrs Felicia Hemans
Robert Southey
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Blake
William Hazlitt
William Wordsworth
The Natural World in Early 20th Century Australian Poetry
A D Hope
Banjo Paterson
C J Dennis
David Campbell
Dorothea Mackellar
E J Brady
Gwen Harwood
Henry Lawson
John Shaw Neilson
Judith Wright
Lesbia Harford
Marjorie Barnard
Mary Gilmore
R D Fitzgerald
Vivienne Scott
The Nature Poets of the American South (19th–Early 20th century)
Carl Sandburg
Emily Dickinson
Halfred Lee
James Weldon Johnson
John Thompson
Langston Hughes
Lola Ridge
Marianne Moore
Mary E Wilkins Freeman
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Robert Penn Warren
Siddhartha Giggs
Sidney Lanier
Walt Whitman
Zora Neale Hurston
The Nature Poets of the Baltic States (Early 20th century)
Aldona Gustava
Aldona Virt
Andrej Ērgļs
Anna Brigadere
Antanas Škėma
Bertolt Brecht
Carl Robert Jakobson
Emīls Dārziņš
Feliksas Vaitkus
Jānis Akuraters
Konstantīns Raudive
Liselotte Aasmäe
Pāvels Rusovs
Rainis Jānis Pliekšāns
Selma Lagerlöf
The Nature and Animal Poetry Movement (19th–20th century)
Carl Sandburg
Dylan Thomas
Emily Dickinson
Gary Snyder
Gwendolyn Brooks
John Clare
Langston Hughes
Mary Oliver
Robert Bly
Robert Frost
Sylvia Plath
Ted Hughes
Wallace Stevens
Walt Whitman
William Wordsworth
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1850s–1860s)
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Arthur Hughes
Christina Rossetti
Coventry Patmore
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Edward Burne-Jones
F T Palgrave
George Edmund Street
James Collinson
John Everett Millais
Philip Webb
Robert Buchanan
Thomas Woolner
Walter Deverell
William Morris
The Romantic Poets of the Iberian Peninsula (19th century)
Emilia Pardo Bazán
Esteban Echeverría
Francisco de Quevedo
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Joaquín Dicenta
José Zorrilla
José de Espronceda
José de San Martín
Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch
Manuel José Quintana
Mariano José de Larra
Nicolás de la Cruz y Sola
Rosalía de Castro
Tomás de Iriarte
Ángel de Saavedra Duque de Rivas
Transcendentalism (1830s–1850s)
Adeline Dutton Train Whitney
Charles Lane
Clara Barton
David Thoreau Henrys brother
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
Emily Dickinson
George Ripley
Henry David Thoreau
Jones Very
Lydia Maria Child
Margaret Fuller
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ruth H M Houghton
William Ellery Channing
William James Stillman
Victorian Nature Poetry (1837–1901)
AE Housman
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Clara Wadel
Coventry Patmore
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Emily Dickinson
George Meredith
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Isaak Walton
John Clare
Richard Jefferies
Robert Browning
Rudyard Kipling
Thomas Hardy
William Morris
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