Title: Green voices : understanding contemporary nature poetry /
Authors: Gifford, Terry.
Publisher: Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: English poetry History and criticism; Pastoral poetry, English History and criticism.; Nature in literature.
Contents: 1. The social construction of nature -- 2. Some versions of contemporary pastoral? The poetry of Norman Nicholson, George Mackay Brown, John Montague and R.S. Thomas -- 3. The anti-pastoral tradition and Patrick Kavanagh's The Great Hunger -- 4. A culture of kinship and place: the poetry of Sorley MacLean -- 5. "Art a paradigm of earth": The poetry of Seamus Heaney -- 6. Laureate of nature: the poetry of Ted Hughes -- 7. Many green voices.