Sheep are marginalised in literary criticism and in discussion of
pastoral literature. This book brings an animal studies approach to
poetry about sheep that allows for the agency of these sentient
beings, that have been associated for humans over ten thousand
years. This approach highlights the distinction between wild and
domesticated species and the moral dilemma between the goals of
animal welfare and those of saving species from extinction.
Discussion of mostly contemporary poetry follows a new reading of
works from the pastoral and georgic canon. Allowing for the
sentience and sociality of this species makes it easier to imagine
a natureculture within which to make kin across the species
boundary. Reading poetry about sheep has the power to make new
meanings as we try to adapt to an increasingly complex and
problematic environment. -- .
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