The Transatlantic Eco-Romanticism of Gary Snyder [electronic resource] /
Tovey, Paige.author.
Tracing connections between Gary Snyder and his Romantic and Transcendentalist predecessors - Wordsworth, Blake, Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau - this study explores the tension between urbanization and overindustrialization. The dialectical relationship between Snyder and his predecessors reminds readers that nature is never a simple concept.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Texts; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Romantic Pastoral: Snyder's Ecological Literary Inheritance; 2 Snyder's Twentieth-Century Eco-Romanticism; 3 Romantic Aspiration, Romantic Doubt; 4 Snyder's Post-Romantic Ecological Vision: The Shaman as Poet/Prophet; 5 The Measured Chaos of Snyder's Ecopoetic Form; 6 Snyder's Experimentations with Post-Romantic Ecological Form; 7 Mountains as Romantic Emblems of Revelation; 8 Rivers as Romantic Emblems of Creation; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tracing connections between Gary Snyder and his Romantic and Transcendentalist predecessors - Wordsworth, Blake, Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau - this study explores the tension between urbanization and overindustrialization. The dialectical relationship between Snyder and his predecessors reminds readers that nature is never a simple concept.
Snyder, Gary, 1930-
Literature—History and criticism.
Environment.
Poetry.
America—Literatures.
British literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Literary History.
Environment, general.
Poetry and Poetics.
North American Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.