Reading Response #3

   A Question of Nature: Byron and Wordsworth written by J. Andrew Hubbell of Susquehanna University. Is an article about how nature in Wordsworth poetry differs from nature in Byron's description of the Byronic hero and where Hubbell is using the terms :dwelling" and "nature". Wordsworth believes that nature is the antithesis of culture, whereas Byron replaces nature with environment. Hubbell describes how dwelling and wandering are opposites in a way that tourists are detached to the environment. Hubbell goes on saying that the dwelling-wandering binary helps emphasize other binaries that inform how the eco-criticism has used to study nature-culture. Byron recognizes that nature is represented in art, that it becomes a part of culture; there is no nature in art, here Byron is creating an example where culture and nature are combined. While Wordsworth thinks the opposite, in which he presumes that nature is an ecological understanding and that nature is isolated from culture.
   Reading throughout and annotating "A Question of Nature: Byron and Wordsworth really impact me. Hubbell really continues to contradict Byron's and Wordsworth's beliefs and opinions about nature. In addition to this Hubbell questions the reason why Byron thinks that culture and nature coincide. Wordsworth's dwelling epistemology has been over-emphasize; much of his environmental heroes, is derived frm wandering. Hubbell states that Byron poems about Greece were his first "ecopoesis"and "binary thinking of ecocriticism". Byron is ignored by many critics throughtout this article. but he still is a good nature writer.