| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 396 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-372) and index. |
| Contents |
Singing ecology unto the Lord -- Anon was an environmentalist -- Blake, the Wordsworths, and the dung -- Coleridge imagining -- John Keats eking it out -- John Clare at home in Helpston -- Adamic Walt Whitman -- Syllables of Emily Dickinson -- Nature shadowing Thomas Hardy -- The world charged by Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Nature versus history in W.B. Yeats -- Robert Frost and the fun in how you say a thing -- Frost and the necessity of metaphor -- England thanks to Edward Thomas, 1914-1917 -- Wings of Wallace Stevens -- Reviving America with William Carlos Williams -- Williams and the environmental news -- D.H. Lawrence in Taormina and Taos -- Ocean, rock, hawk, and Robinson Jeffers -- Marianne Moore's fantastic reverence -- To steepletop and ragged island with Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Pablo Neruda at Machu Picchu -- Stanley Kunitz : his nettled field, his dune garden -- Things whole and holy for Kenneth Rexroth -- Theodore Roethke from greenhouse to seascape -- George Oppen's Psalm of Attentiveness -- Elizabeth Bishop traveling -- Something alive in May Swenson -- Earth home to William Stafford -- America's angst and Robert Lowell's -- Life illumined around Denise Levertov --Shirley Kaufman's roots in the air -- News of the North from John Haines -- Trust in Maxine Kumin -- Wind in the reeds in the voice of A.R. Ammons -- W.S. Merwin's motion of mind -- Zest of Galway Kinnel -- Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon at Eagle Pond Farm -- Ted Hughes capturing pike -- Derek Walcott, first to see them -- Gary Snyder's eye for the real world -- Can poetry save the earth? |
| Summary |
In forty brief and lucid chapters, Felstiner presents those voices that have most strongly spoken to and for the natural world. Poets- from the Romantics through Whitman and Dickinson to Elizabeth Bishop and Gary Snyder- have helped us envision such details as ocean winds eroding and rebuilding dunes in the same breath, wild deer freezing in our presence, and a person carving initials on a still-living stranded whale. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American poetry -- History and criticism.
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American poetry. |
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Nature in literature.
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Nature in literature. |
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Ecology in literature.
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Ecology in literature. |
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Conservation of natural resources in literature.
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Conservation of natural resources in literature. |
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Environmental protection in literature.
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Environmental protection in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Felstiner, John. Can poetry save the earth? New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009 9780300137507 (DLC) 2008049729 (OCoLC)262432303 |
| ISBN |
9780300155532 (electronic book) |
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0300155530 (electronic book) |
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0300137508 |
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9780300137507 |
| Standard No. |
9786612089664 |
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