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

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 dune...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Felstiner, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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?