Back again with another mini curriculum, this one all about the Romantic poets and the natural world. This group of writers had fascinating engagements with their environments that in a lot of ways still resonate today. Wordsworth, for instance, achieved the truly rare art of seeing nature and representing it in elemental, almost spiritual terms. Shelley wrote what we might now see as apocalyptic poetry that predicted the end of the world due to climate catastrophe - sounds familiar. Here’s where to start: