Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and Marvell
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Country House Poem
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Earliest Birds
Earth's Womb
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Eve Rest
Exoticorum Libri Decem
Gabriel Plattes
george
god
Greek English Lexicon
henry
house
Human Suffering
Huntington Library Copy
John Manwood
land use politics
Luxurious Man
margaret
Marvell's Speaker
Marvell’s Speaker
Milton's God
miltons
Milton’s God
natural philosophy
Natural World
Nehemiah Grew
Omnific Word
Paradise Lost
Pare
Pathetic Fallacy
poem
proto-scientific thought
seventeenth-century literature
Stately Frontispiece
Sylva Sylvarum
vaughan
Vitalist Poets
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781138252745
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 14 Oct 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Diane Kelsey McColley is Professor II Emeritus at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden, USA. She is the author of Milton's Eve; A Gust for Paradise: Milton's Eden and the Visual Arts; and Poetry and Music in Seventeenth-Century England.
