environmental protection in literature

A collection of essays that study the works of John Steinbeck by looking at them from an environmental perspective.

Profiles nineteen green movement poets, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, W.S. Merwin, Gary Snyder, Walt Whitman, and William Butler Yeats, and provides a brief biography of each poet and a list of their works and achievements.

"Background on Rachel Carson; The environment in Silent Spring; Contemporary perspectives in the environment"--Provided by publisher.