US History

• The Columbian Exchange – a huge environmental change that you may not have heard of before
• Environment in the California Gold Rush
• Environment in the West
• Environment in the Great Depression

Poetry – many poets (especially the Romantics) celebrate nature and ponder man’s relationship with his surroundings

• God’s Grandeur, by Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Ode to a Nightingale, by John Keats
• Pied Beauty, by Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Spring, by Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Spring and All, by William Carlos Williams
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, by Robert Frost
• Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, by Wallace Stevens
• This Lime Tree Bower My Prison, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Tintern Abbey, by William Wordsworth
• To Autumn, by John Keats
• When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer, by Walt Whitman
• The World is Too Much with Us, by William Wordsworth