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Item Details
Title:
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IMAGINING THE EARTH
POETRY AND THE VISION OF NATURE |
By: |
John Elder |
Format: |
Paperback |
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£29.50 |
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ISBN 10: |
0820318477 |
ISBN 13: |
9780820318479 |
Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS |
Pub. date: |
31 July, 1996 |
Edition: |
2nd Revised edition |
Description: |
This text explores the way in which our attitudes toward nature are mirrored in, and influenced by poetry. It illustrates how poetry can identify, interpret and celebrate issues related to nature and our place in it, with examples from poets such as T.S. Eliot and Robinson Jeffers. |
Synopsis: |
A landmark work in the burgeoning field of literary ecology, "Imagining the Earth" explores the ways in which our attitudes toward nature are mirrored in and influenced by poetry. In the work of some of our most widely read poets, says John Elder, one can discern a resurgent vision of humanity in harmony with the rest of the natural order.To show us the power of poetry to identify, interpret, and celebrate a wide range of issues related to nature and our place in it, Elder uses numerous examples of works by Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, A. R. Ammons, Denise Levertov, and William Everson. Elder places these poets within a cultural tradition flowing from William Wordsworth through Alfred North Whitehead, T. S. Eliot, and Robinson Jeffers, and uses their poems to illuminate the relationships between culture and wilderness, imagination and landscape, and science and poetry. Elder's commentaries are interlinked with two remarkable essays in which he describes his ow |
Illustrations: |
Illustrations, black and white |
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US |
Imprint: |
University of Georgia Press |
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Non-returnable |
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