Imagining the Earth: Poetry and the Vision of NatureUniversity of Illinois Press, 1985 - 232 Seiten This landmark work explores how our attitudes toward nature are mirrored in and influenced by poetry. Showing us a resurgent vision of harmony between nature and humanity in the work of some of our most widely read poets, Imagining the Earth reveals the power of poetry to identify, interpret, and celebrate a wide range of issues related to nature and our place in it. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
The Covenant of Loss | 7 |
Culture as Decay | 24 |
Reinhabitation | 40 |
Hitching a Ride with the Cumberland Beggar | 75 |
The Footpath of Tradition | 93 |
Bodies of Vision | 116 |
Poetry and the Minds Terrain | 136 |
Winter Without Snow | 151 |
Structures of Evolving Consciousness | 161 |
A Record of the Waves | 185 |
The Wilderness at Poetrys Edge | 207 |
Notes | 217 |
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A. R. Ammons achieve affirm Ammons's Annie Dillard Bashō beauty becomes Berry's body Book chapter circle connection contemporary cycles decay Denise Levertov Dillard dynamic earth edge Eliot emotional essay Everson Excerpts reprinted experience expression feeling finally forest forms Gary Snyder ground haiku harmony human culture Ibid Jeffers Jeffers's landscape larger light lines lives Matthiessen mind mind's Modern World mountain move nature's ness organic Pack's particular passage past perspective philosophy of organism poem's Poems and Prefaces poet poet's poetic poetry of nature poetry's Prelude present Process and Reality R. H. Blyth reflects relation reprinted by permission response Robinson Jeffers rock scientific seed Selected Poems sense snow Snow Leopard soil Sphere subsequent references T. S. Eliot terrain things tion tradition trees turn understanding unity values Vermont vision walk Waste Land Wendell Berry Whitehead wholeness wilderness William Everson winter words Wordsworth writes
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