Title: Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and Marvell (Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity)
First published: November 13, 2007
Description: "The focus of this study is the perception of nature in the language of poetry and the languages of natural philosophy, technology, theology, and global exploration, primarily in seventeenth century England. Its premise is that language and the perception of nature vitally affect each other and that seventeenth-century poets, primarily John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and Henry Vaughan, but also Margaret Cavendish, Thomas Traherne, Anne Finch, and others, responded to experimental proto-science and new technology in ways that we now call 'ecological' - concerned with watersheds and habitats and the lives of all creatures. It provides close readings of works by these poets in the contexts of natural history, philosophy, and theology as well as technology and land use, showing how they responded to what are currently considered ecological issues: deforestation, mining, air pollutionion, drainage of wetlands, destruction of habitats, the sentience and intelligence of animals, overbuilding, global commerce, the politics of land use, and relations between social justice and justice towards the other-than-human world." "In this important book, Diane McColley demonstrates the language of poetry, the language of responsible science, and the language of moral and political philosophy all to be necessary parts of public discourse."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Marvell, andrew, 1621-1678, Milton, john, 1608-1674, English poetry, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, Great britain, intellectual life, English poetry, History and criticism, Literature and science, History, Intellectual life, Knowledge, Natural history, Philosophy of nature in literature, Ecology in literature, Nature in literature, Environmental policy in literature, Littérature et sciences, Histoire, Vie intellectuelle, Philosophie de la nature dans la littérature, Nature dans la littérature, Environnement, Politique gouvernementale, dans la littérature, POETRY, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Early modern, Knowledge and learning, Knowledge--natural historymarvell, andrew , 1621-1678, Knowledge--natural historymilton, john , 1608-1674, English poetry--history and criticism, English poetry--early modern, 1500-1700--history and criticism, Literature and science--history, Literature and science--great britain--history--17th century, Pr545.s33 m33 2007, 821/.70936, Et les sciences naturelles, Poésie anglaise, Histoire et critique, Écologie dans la littérature, Politique environnementale dans la littérature, Ökologie, Literatur, Lyrik