Poetry and ecology in the age of Milton and Marvell
By: by Diane Kelsey McColley.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754660484
Subjects: Marvell, Andrew, -- 1621-1678 -- Knowledge -- Natural history; Milton, John, -- 1608-1674 -- Knowledge -- Natural history; English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Philosophy of nature in literature; Ecology in literature; Nature in literature; Environmental policy in literature; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the state of nature and the problem of language; title: Perceiving habitats: Marvell and the language of sensuous reciprocity; title: Earth, mining, monotheism, and mountain theology; title: Air, water, woods; title: Hylozoic poetry: the lives of plants; title: Zoic poetry: animals, ornithology, and the ethics of empathy; title: Animal ethics and radical justice; title: Milton's prophetic epics.