Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and MarvellRoutledge, 02.03.2017 - 276 Seiten 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 pollution, 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. |
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... Garden the elephant entertaining Adam and Eve (4. 346) may still suggest temperance and piety but “make[s] them mirth” by being himself. When Milton describes the migratory flight of “the prudent Crane” (7. 429–31), his sounds and ...
... Garden the elephant entertaining Adam and Eve (4. 346) may still suggest temperance and piety but “make[s] them mirth” by being himself. When Milton describes the migratory flight of “the prudent Crane” (7. 429–31), his sounds and ...
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... , and men by the Civil Wars—to restore the land after the patterns of Vergil's Georgics and the Garden of Eden. At the same time, the glimmerings of a sense of Perceiving Habitats: Marvell and the Language of Sensuous Reciprocity.
... , and men by the Civil Wars—to restore the land after the patterns of Vergil's Georgics and the Garden of Eden. At the same time, the glimmerings of a sense of Perceiving Habitats: Marvell and the Language of Sensuous Reciprocity.
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... garden, epitome of nature, as the domain of a human race whose calling was to dress and keep its pristine abundance—to care for and preserve it according to its nature, a vocation practiced in Paradise Lost as in no other version of the ...
... garden, epitome of nature, as the domain of a human race whose calling was to dress and keep its pristine abundance—to care for and preserve it according to its nature, a vocation practiced in Paradise Lost as in no other version of the ...
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... garden or woodland was still a respectable topic in scientific circles such as Samuel Hartlib's,8 but joined with exact observation of nature. With the help of a microscope, Sir Thomas Pope Blount could still say in 1693 that “every ...
... garden or woodland was still a respectable topic in scientific circles such as Samuel Hartlib's,8 but joined with exact observation of nature. With the help of a microscope, Sir Thomas Pope Blount could still say in 1693 that “every ...
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... gardens, and meads of a comparatively modest estate in Yorkshire as “paradise's only map,” Marvell offers a corrective ... garden, a work of artifice with the postwar program of converting artillery to flowers; and proceeds through the ...
... gardens, and meads of a comparatively modest estate in Yorkshire as “paradise's only map,” Marvell offers a corrective ... garden, a work of artifice with the postwar program of converting artillery to flowers; and proceeds through the ...
Inhalt
Earth Mining Monotheism and Mountain Theology | |
Air Water Woods | |
The Lives of Plants | |
Animals Ornithology and the Ethics of Empathy | |
Animal Ethics and Radical Justice | |
Miltons Prophetic Epics | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and Marvell Diane Kelsey McColley Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2007 |
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Adam and Eve Adam’s allegorical Andrew Marvell animals Appleton House Bacon beasts beauty Bentley biblical birds body Book called common country house poems Cowley creation creatures divine dominion doth draining Dryden early modern earth ecological English ethical Fairfax fish flesh flow’rs flowers forest fowl fruit Fumifugium garden Genesis Georgics God’s gold Grew habitats Hartlib hath Heav’n heaven Henry Vaughan human hunting hylozoism John Evelyn John Milton kind land language living London Lord man’s Margaret Cavendish Marvell Marvell’s matter metaphor Milton monistic moral mountains natural history natural world nature’s Nehemiah Grew nightingale Nunappleton Ornithology Paradise Lost perception philosophers plants poetry poets political praise Raphael Ray’s reason responsibility river Royal Society Rudrum Samuel Hartlib Satan says sense serpent seventeenthcentury song soul species spirit stanza Sylva thee theology things Thomas thou Topsell tortoise trees Vergil vitalist wild Wilkins womb woods words writes