| What Else Is Pastoral?: Renaissance Literature and the Environment Subjects: English literature -- Early modern 1500–1700 -- History and criticism; Pastoral literature English -- History and criticism; Nature in literature; Ecology in literature; A corrective to the prevailing interpretation of pastoral poetry that shows the value of reading literature ecologically. Ken Hiltner is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Milton and Ecology and the editor of Renaissance Ecology: Imagining Eden in Milton's England. |