ABSTRACT
Literary essays, novels, poetry and short stories have all been used to transmit ecological and holistic concepts. Literature reaches further than a manifesto, philosophical tract or scientific report, and deeper. We have already noted the Green sensibilities of the Romantic poets, especially Blake, Goethe, Shelley and Wordsworth. The list of Green novelists may be said to include Aldous Huxley and D.H.Lawrence. Tolstoy, the anarchist, vegetarian advocate of non-violence, voiced his love of the natural world even in such epic works as War and Peace. Yet even the ‘manifestoes’, polemical works written without pretensions to literary merit, include much that can be described as literature. We may also include the works of Carlyle, Ruskin and Morris, examples of which may be found elsewhere in this volume.
