Title The transatlantic eco-romanticism of Gary Snyder / by Paige Tovey

Published New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource Series The new urban Atlantic New urban Atlantic. Contents Introduction -- The romantic pastoral: Snyder's ecological literary inheritance -- Snyder's twentieth century eco-romanticism -- Romantic aspiration, romantic doubt -- Snyder's post-romantic ecological vision: the shaman as poet/prophet -- The measured chaos of snyder's eco-poetic form -- Snyder's experimentations with post-romantic ecological form -- Mountains as romantic emblems of revelation -- Rivers as romantic emblems of creation Summary Tracing connections between Gary Snyder and his Romantic and Transcendentalist predecessors - Wordsworth, Blake, Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau - this book explores the tension between urbanization and over-industrialization. Paige Tovey evaluates the eco-poetic workings of what Snyder himself calls "cross-fertilizations" and argues that his poetry reworks British Romantic as well as American Transcendentalist and modernist ideas and forms. This study examines the ways in which Snyder negotiates the urban and the natural, and traces the history of the Eco-Romantic poetic tradition as it is disseminated from 'Old World' to 'New World' across the Atlantic. Here, the Romantic ecopoetic tradition finds new life in Pulitzer Prize-winner Gary Snyder's poetry and poetics; and the dialectical relationship between Snyder and his predecessors reminds readers that nature is never a simple concept Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Snyder, Gary, 1930- -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Snyder, Gary, 1930- fast Snyder, Gary 1930- gnd Subject Ecology in literature. Romanticism. romanticism (form of expression) Literary studies: poetry & poets -- English -- USA. Literary studies: from c 1900 -- English -- USA. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry. Literature. Ecology in literature Romanticism Ökologie Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137340153 1137340150 9781137340146 1137340142

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