I agree with John Kinsella that the ideal for our needs now might be something very like Wordsworth in conjunction with Prynne (though the Prynne we already have might be, or might have become, more like that than we are inclined to give credit for). Charles Bernstein has suggested somewhere a combination of William Cowper and Prynne, at least as an ideal for reading. Any further thoughts down this road? If anyone is interested in fresh thoughts on authorship and reference in relation to the ecocentric grappling with the homocentric, Lawrence Buell's The Environmental Imagination is worth looking at. Peter Peter Larkin Philosophy & Literature Librarian University of Warwick Library Coventry CV4 7AL UK Tel: 01203 528151 Fax: 01203 524211 Email: [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%