{"product_id":"imagining-the-earth-poetry-and-the-vision-of-nature-2nd-ed-9780820318479","title":"Imagining the Earth: Poetry and the Vision of Nature, 2nd Ed.","description":"\u003cp\u003eA landmark work in the burgeoning field of literary ecology, \u003ci\u003eImagining the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e explores the ways in which our attitudes toward nature are mirrored in and influenced by poetry. In the work of some of our most widely read poets, says John Elder, one can discern a resurgent vision of humanity in harmony with the rest of the natural order. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo show us the power of poetry to identify, interpret, and celebrate a wide range of issues related to nature and our place in it, Elder uses numerous examples of works by Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, A. R. Ammons, Denise Levertov, and William Everson. Elder places these poets within a cultural tradition flowing from William Wordsworth through Alfred North Whitehead, T. S. Eliot, and Robinson Jeffers, and uses their poems to illuminate the relationships between culture and wilderness, imagination and landscape, and science and poetry. Elder's commentaries are interlinked with two remarkable essays in which he describes his ow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Elder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.43h x 5.28w x 0.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820318479\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Elder is Stewart Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Middlebury College. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including \"Reading the Mountains of Home\" and \"Nature Writing\" (coedited with Robert Finch).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44128115458163,"sku":"9.78082E+12","price":66.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_6040ba9c-6a0c-4411-83ee-2f457368c8a9.jpg?v=1764853341","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/imagining-the-earth-poetry-and-the-vision-of-nature-2nd-ed-9780820318479","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}