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African Nature Poets (19th–Early 20th century)
American Modernism and Nature (1910s–1930s)
American Nature Haiku Movement (1910s–1930s)
American Nature Poets (19th century)
American Realism and Nature Poetry (Late 19th–Early 20th century)
Anthropocentric Nature Poetry (Early 20th century)
British Nature Poetry (19th century)
British Neo-Romanticism (Early 20th century)
Canadian Nature Poets (Late 19th–Early 20th century)
Classical Haiku (Bashō, Buson, Issa)
Dadaism and Nature (1910s–1920s)
Early Eco-Poetry and Nature (Early 20th century)
Early Haiku Masters (17th–18th centuries)
Ecofeminist Poetry and Nature (Late 19th–Early 20th century)
Ecosophy in Poetry (Early 20th century)
French Realism and Nature (Mid 19th century)
French Romanticism and Nature (Early 19th century)
Futurism and Nature (Early 20th century)
Haikai no Renga Tradition
Haiku and Zen Buddhism
Haiku as a Popular Literary Form (Late 19th century)
Haiku in the Edo Period (1603–1868)
Haiku in the English-Speaking World (Early 20th century)
Haiku in the Meiji Period (1868–1912)
Imagism's Influence on Nature (Early 20th century)
Imagist Movement and Nature (Early 20th century)
Kyōka Haiku
Lyrical Nature Writing (Late 19th–Early 20th century)
Modern Japanese Haiku (20th century)
Modern Nature Poetry in Poland (Early 20th century)
Modern Nature Poetry in South America
Modernist Nature Writing in Italy (Early 20th century)
Modernist Nature Writing in Spain (1920s)
Naturalism (Late 19th century)
Nature Poetry in the British Romantic Period (1800–1850)
Nature as Political Allegory (Early 20th century)
Nature in New Zealand Poetry (Late 19th–Early 20th century)
Nature in Russian Symbolism (Late 19th century)
Post-Impressionist Poets and Nature (Late 19th–Early 20th century)
Post-Romantic Nature in European Poetry (Mid 19th century)
Psychological Nature Poetry (20th century)
Renaissance Nature Poetry (16th century)
Romanticism (Late 18th–Mid-19th century)
Romanticized Nature Poetry in Colonial Contexts (19th century)
Scandinavian Nature Poetry (Late 19th century)
Shiki's Modern Haiku Movement
Symbolist Nature Poetry (19th–20th century)
The Beat Generation and Nature (1940s–1950s)
The Bloomsbury Group and Nature (1910s–1930s)
The Chicago Imagists (1920s–1930s)
The French Symbolist Movement (Late 19th century)
The Haiku Influence on Modern Nature Poetry (1910s–1920s)
The Hudson River School Poets (19th century)
The Lake Poets and Nature (1790s–1820s)
The Natural World in Early 20th Century Australian Poetry
The Nature Poets of the American South (19th–Early 20th century)
The Nature Poets of the Baltic States (Early 20th century)
The Nature and Animal Poetry Movement (19th–20th century)
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1850s–1860s)
The Romantic Poets of the Iberian Peninsula (19th century)
Transcendentalism (1830s–1850s)
Victorian Nature Poetry (1837–1901)

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An octopus,
bright red in the tide,
unfurls in the water,
squeezing the stars that shine
on the sea.

Marianne Moore