Imagining the Earth - Poetry and the Vision of Nature (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

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

General

Imprint:	University of Georgia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 1996
First published:	November 1996
Authors:	John Elder
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	246
Edition:	2nd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8203-1847-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
LSN:	0-8203-1847-7
Barcode:	9780820318479

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