Romanticism & Ecology

The Loves of Plants and Animals: Romantic Science and the Pleasures of Nature

Ashton Nichols, Dickinson College

Works Cited

Bartram, John. The Correspondence of John Bartram, 1734-1777. Ed. Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy S. Berkeley. Gainesville: U of Florida P, 1992.

Blake, William. Complete Writings. Ed. Geoffrey Keynes. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989 [1966].

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de. The System of Natural History. Ed. R.. Morison. Edinburgh, 1791.

---. The Natural History of Insects, compiled from Swammerdam, Brookes, Goldsmith. 1792 [bound together with Buffon, System, 1791].

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Poetical Works. Ed. E. H. Coleridge. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1973 [1912].

---. Anima Poetae. Ed. E. H. Coleridge. London: Heinemann, 1895.

Darwin, Erasmus. The Botanic Garden; a Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. The economy of vegetation. Part II. The loves of the plants. With philosophical notes. New York: T. & J. Swords, 1807 [2nd American edition].

---. The Temple of Nature; or, The origin of society. A poem, with philosophical notes. Baltimore: Bonsal & Niles, 1804 [London, 1803].

---. Zoonomia ; or The laws of organic life. 2 vols. Boston: Thomas and Andrews, 1809 [3rd American edition].

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks. Ed. William H. Gilman et al. 8 vols. Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960-70.

---. Nature. Intro. Jaroslav Pelican. Boston: Beacon P, 1985. Feyerabend, Paul. Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction versus the Richness of Being. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1999.

Goethe, J. W. von. Goethe on Science. Ed. Jeremy Naydler. Edinburgh: Floris Books, 1996.

Goldsmith, Oliver. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature. 4 vols. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1795.

Irmscher, Christoph. The Poetics of Natural History: From John Bartram to William James. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1999.

Keats, John. The Complete Poems. Ed. Miriam Allott. London: Longman, 1975. Lindroth, Sten. "The Two Faces of Linnaeus." Linnaeus: The Man and His Work. Ed. Tore Frangsmyr. Berkeley: U of California P, 1983.

Oerlemans, Onno Dag. "'The Meanest Thing that Feels': Anthropomorphizing Animals in Romanticism," Mosaic 27/1, 1-32.

Richardson, Robert. Emerson: The Mind on Fire. Berkeley : U of California P, 1995.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Poetical Works. Ed. Thomas Hutchinson, corr. G. M Matthews. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1970.

Stearn, William T. "Linnaean Classification, Nomenclature, and Method." The Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus. By Wilfrid Blunt. New York: Viking, 1971. Appendix.

Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. Ed. Mary Moorman. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1971.

Wordsworth, William. The Oxford Authors. Ed. Stephen Gill. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1984.

---. The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850. Ed. Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, and Stephen Gill. New York: Norton, 1979.