Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and MarvellThe 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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... beasts & stones” and for Joschka, Kelsey and Katie, Max and Stuart Lauren and Isabelle Jae, Rowan, and Sachaa Eden Fe, Peter, Eli, and Lucy Jean Cassandra and Amalia, Ian and Genevieve Joy, Zhenya, Jacob, Julia, Clara, and Svetlana List ...
... beasts & stones” and for Joschka, Kelsey and Katie, Max and Stuart Lauren and Isabelle Jae, Rowan, and Sachaa Eden Fe, Peter, Eli, and Lucy Jean Cassandra and Amalia, Ian and Genevieve Joy, Zhenya, Jacob, Julia, Clara, and Svetlana List ...
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... beast or the human . . . may be frustrated” and “simple affinity” false, and that we need to get “past such ethical rubrics as anthropocentric and ecocentric” in Writing for an Endangered World, 233 and 225. 24 Ruskin, Modern Painters ...
... beast or the human . . . may be frustrated” and “simple affinity” false, and that we need to get “past such ethical rubrics as anthropocentric and ecocentric” in Writing for an Endangered World, 233 and 225. 24 Ruskin, Modern Painters ...
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... beasts are by their dens expressed: And birds contrive an equal nest; The lowroofed tortoises do dwell In cases fit of tortoise shell; No creature loves an empty space; Their bodies measure out their place. —and Marvell's economical ...
... beasts are by their dens expressed: And birds contrive an equal nest; The lowroofed tortoises do dwell In cases fit of tortoise shell; No creature loves an empty space; Their bodies measure out their place. —and Marvell's economical ...
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Diane Kelsey McColley. beasts, and tortoises we should learn to express ourselves in “cases fit,” and the compact form of the stanzas provides cases fit for the case Marvell is making. By such economical means, he fits his stanzas to the ...
Diane Kelsey McColley. beasts, and tortoises we should learn to express ourselves in “cases fit,” and the compact form of the stanzas provides cases fit for the case Marvell is making. By such economical means, he fits his stanzas to the ...
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... beasts within us. He keeps a temperate version of the georgic view of nature as useful to human civilization, but he does not promote the views, popular with agricultural projectors such as John Norden, that it is man's duty to “convert ...
... beasts within us. He keeps a temperate version of the georgic view of nature as useful to human civilization, but he does not promote the views, popular with agricultural projectors such as John Norden, that it is man's duty to “convert ...
Contents
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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