English Professor Dewey Hall has published a book that studies the link between Romantic naturalists and environmentalists. In “Romantic Naturalists, Early Environmentalists: An Ecocritical Study, 1789-1912,” Hall argues that literary figures William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson were both influenced by English naturalist Gilbert White. Wordsworth and Emerson shaped the early environmental movement as poets-turned-naturalists … Continue reading Professor Examines Environmental Movement in Book