Poetry and ecology in the age of Milton and Marvell
Diane Kelsey McColley (Author)
Print Book, English, 2016
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London, 2016
252 p.
9781138252745, 9780754660484, 1138252743, 0754660486
1050028105
Contents: Preface; Introduction: the state of nature and the problem of language; Perceiving habitats: Marvell and the language of sensuous reciprocity; Earth, mining, monotheism and mountain theology; Air, water, woods; Hylozoic poetry: the lives of plants; Zoic poetry: animals, ornithology, and the ethics of empathy; Animal ethics and radical justice; Milton's prophetic epics; Bibliography; Index.