Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American PoetryJust as the look of the American landscape has changed since the nineteenth century, so has our idea of landscape. Here Bonnie Costello reads six twentieth-century American poets who have reflected and shaped this transformation and in the process renovated landscape by drawing new images from the natural world and creating new forms for imagining the earth and our relation to it. |
Contents
Frame and Flux | 1 |
Frosts Crossings | 19 |
Stevens Eccentricity | 53 |
Copyright | |
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Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry Bonnie Costello Limited preview - 2003 |
Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry Bonnie Costello Limited preview - 2003 |
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A. R. Ammons abstract aesthetic American Amy Clampitt apostrophe Arthur Dove Ashbery Auroras Auroras of Autumn becomes beholder canto chiasmus Clampitt cognition constructed continuous creates crossing culture dream dwelling dynamic earth Ecocriticism embodied Emerson environment evoke evolutionary experience fiction figure frame and flux Frost garden ground Harold Bloom horizon human idea ideal identity illusion imagination John Ashbery knowledge land landscape language live logic lyric Marianne Moore marks meditation metaphor metaphysical mind modern Moore Moore's motion mountains move narrative nature nature's never nomadic painting pastoral pattern perspective pilgrim poem poem's poet poet's poetic present reality relation rhetoric Robert Frost Robert Smithson Romantic scape scene sense shifting space spatial stanza structure sublime suggests syntax temporal theater things tion tradition transcendence transcendental tree trope ture turns unity vision visionary Wallace Stevens wilderness writes York