Work cat.: 2015013167: National Geographic book of nature poetry, 2015.
2009018528: Black nature : four centuries of African American nature poetry, ©2009.
Early Welsh gnomic and nature poetry, 2012: p. xvii (Pure nature poetry, as opposed to incidental references to the natural world, does not survive in Old English and is rare in Mediaeval Welsh before the fourteenth century, but it is well exemplified in Old Irish)
Keegan, B. British labouring-class nature poetry, 1730-1837, 2008.
Quetchenbach, B.W. Back from the far field : American nature poetry in the late twentieth century, 2000.
Twentieth-century American nature poets, c2008: p. xvii (American nature poetry; contemporary poets who desire to write about the natural world are confronted with a task that in many ways is markedly different from the one their predecessors faced. For one thing, realities that pervade much of recent nature poetry--especially those relating to environmental and ecological crises--are phenomena that writers such as Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) or William Cullen Bryant (1794-1798 [i.e. 1878]) were never forced to consider; the genre is one heavily endowed with mystical, metaphorical, and spiritual images and values; "Nature," as rendered in poems, fiction, and essays, often appears in quotation marks, identifying it as a socially constructed phenomenon) p. xviii (certain characteristics run through much of the work produced by the writers more readily described as poets of nature: a purposeful and explicit focus on the nonhuman world; an emphasis on nature for its own sake rather than merely as a metaphor for human values and concerns; an exploration of the relationship that exists between that world and the human; and, a fundamental reverence regarding the poet's subject matter. These characteristics are not criteria but simply traits most nature poets share) p. xix (By the late 1990s, scholarly attention to contemporary nature poetry (or what was coming to be called "environmental poetry" or "ecopoetry") began to proliferate) p. xx (poets who have explored the relationship between humanity and nonhuman nature)
Twentieth-century American nature writers : prose, c2003: p. xvii (nature writing as a category has expanded to include environmental poetry, variously labeled nature poetry or ecopoetry)
The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics, ©2012: Nature (nature/wilderness not only was often seen as a manifestation of deity but became a fetish object for a broad range of writers and artists across Europe and America, incl. J.W. Goethe, William Wordsworth, H.D. Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and Thomas Hardy. This strain of broadly romantic reverence for nature continued into the 20th and 21st cs. with writers such as Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, and Wendell Berry. However, as untouched wilderness was quickly being domesticated throughout the Northern Hemisphere, benign areas imagined as wilderness, which had in fact already been extensively modified by human beings, such as the Lake District of 19th-c. England and Thoreau's Walden Pond, soon began to stand for wilderness in much nature writing) Tamil poetry and poetics (Kanaka Subburatnam (1891-1964) called himself Bharatidasan (Bharati's slave) and continued to write patriotic and nature poetry following but also modifying Bharati's style)

Poetry that romanticizes the natural world and emphasizes nature for its own sake.