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1. Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind by Karl Kroeber 185 pages, paperback, Columbia University Press, 1994 Ecological Literary Criticism addresses the ecological and social ideas embodied in the work of the English Romantic poets. By exposing the failure of modern critics to recognize the deepest significance of the romantic poets interest in natural processes, Kroeber demonstrates the importance of developing a more ecologically informed critical approach to literature. It is necessary to emphasize how relatively little and how uncertain was the scientific support in the romantic age for the poets proto-ecological views. Nowadays it is easy for even literary critics to pay casual lip service to ecological ideas. In the early nineteenth century to think of nature as the romantic poets did required an originality that we ought not to undervalue. 2.”song of myself” of Leaves of grass,by Walt Whitman,world press corporation,april.2010 As a representative of romanticism, Walt Whitman develops his contemporary poets view of nature. He respects the earth as Father and the ocean as Mother and compares himself to a blade of grass. Human, in his view,is equal of all the other living beings in the world and they form a unified ecological system. He advocates Rousseaus regression to nature and sings for a simple and wild life.This paper discusses the theme of ecology permeated in Whitmans Song of Myself and the significance of the harmony between Man and Nature in an attempt to enhance the environmental awareness of the public. 3 Ernest Hemingway`s ecological complex:a rereading of the old man and the sea and the bible from the perspective of ecocriticism, chengzhigan, It is the thought about man and nature that hemingway wants to expose profoundly in his work demonstrates that hemingway possesses ecological consciences,which is contradictory,however, what it boils down to is the ecological complexities contained in the bible are the cause of his contradictory eco