Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-363) and index.
John and William Bartram (1864) / Henry Tuckerman -- Henry David Thoreau (1865) / James Russell Lowell -- Walt Whitman, Gilbert White, and Henry David Thoreau (1867, 1902, and 1919) / John Burroughs -- Science's Representation of Nature (1872) / William Benjamin Carpenter -- The Poetic Interpretation of Nature (1877) / Alfred Austin -- The Shortcomings of Language (1887) / Richard Jefferies -- Hebrew Poetry, John Burroughs, and Nature's Record in Language (1891 and 1897) / Hamilton Wright Mabie -- Nature in Early American Literature (1893) / Selden Whitcomb -- The Love of Romantic Scenery in America (1897) / Mary Woolley -- Exchanges from the "Nature Faker" Controversy (1902-1907) -- The Evolution of the Animal Story (1902) / Charles G. D. Roberts -- Nature, Gender, Outdoor Life, and Fiction (1903 and 1905) / Mabel Osgood Wright -- Thoreau's The Maine Woods (1908) / Fannie Eckstorm -- The Psychological Roots of the Love of Wilderness (1909) / Havelock Ellis -- Sincerity in Nature Writing (1911) / Dallas Lore Sharp -- Nature Cultists and American Literature (1912 and 1923) / Norman Forester -- Forestry and the Hebrew Bible (1920) / Aldo Leopold -- Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur (1923) / D. H. Lawrence -- Thoreau, Nature, and Society (1926) / Lewis Mumford -- Women Nature Writers (1930) / Henry Chester Tracy -- Literature and the Regional Environment (1932) / Mary Hunter Austin -- Donald Culross Peattie (1937) / Mark Van Doren -- Thoreau, Science, and Nature (1938) / Donald Culross Peattie -- The Organic Style of Emerson and Thoreau (1941) / F. O. Matthiessen -- Nature and Immediacy in Poetry (1942) / D. S. Savage -- The Intellectual History of Nature Writing (1950) / Joseph Wood Krutch -- Nature and American Nationalism (1955) / Perry Miller -- Thoreau, The Maine Woods, and the Problem of Ktaadn (1958) / Sherman Paul -- The Pastoral in American Literature (1964) / Leo Marx -- Annotated Bibliography of Early Ecocriticism