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Can poetry save the earth? : a field guide to nature poems / John Felstiner.

By: Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.Description: xiv, 396 p., [24] p.of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780300168136
  • 9780300137507 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0300137508 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 811.009/36 22
LOC classification:
  • PS310.N3 F45 2009
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?

Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-372) and index.

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?

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