Birds Around Us ENGL 133w - Resource Guide

erry's integrated professions of farmer, writer, and critic of industrial development placed him among the major figures of the twentieth century in both conservation and literature.

Poet, novelist, essayist, social critic, and small farmer, Wendell Erdman Berry was born August 5, 1934, in rural Henry County, Kentucky. The years after World War II witnessed large farms replacing small ones, machines replacing horses, and internecine, debt-ridden, assistance-dependent farmers replacing a tight-knit, largely self-sufficient rural community. This agricultural transition that took place in Henry County (and more broadly, the rural United States) during Berry's formative years would have a lasting impact on his values, livelihood, and ultimately his writing.

Berry, Wes. "Loyalty To Place And Land Stewardship As Ecological Good Work In Wendell Berry’s The Memory of Old Jack." Critical Insights: Nature and the Environment, edited by Scott Slovic, Salem, 2012.
Discusses The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry.

Comments on how Wendell Berry depicts the wilderness in several of his writings. Distinctive aspects of Berry's wilderness; Historical dimensions; Comments on `The Unforeseen Wilderness'; `The Journey's End'; `The Long-Legged House.'

Articles from the Academic Search Complete database.

The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture.

Wendell Berry’s The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, published in 1977, awakened a national and global conversation on the dire state of agriculture. The Berry Center was launched in 2011 to continue this conversation and preserve the legacy of Wendell Berry’s work and writings and the exceptional agricultural contributions of his father John Berry, Sr., and his brother John Berry, Jr.

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