How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers and Other Woodcuts

by Robert Williams Wood

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  • 7 pages
  • Year: 1917
  • ~45m

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A physicist writes a collection of humorous poems responding to the Nature Fakers controversy.

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The Nature Fakers controversy, also called the "War of the Naturalists," was an early 20th-century American debate over sentimentality versus accuracy in nature writing. The controversy was kicked off in 1903 when naturalist and writer John Burroughs published his article "Real and Sham Natural History" in The Atlantic Monthly, lambasting popular nature writers for their overly-anthropomorphic depictions of wildlife and denouncing the genre of realistic animal fiction as the "yellow journalism of the woods."

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