Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and MarvellRoutledge, 2 mar 2017 - 276 páginas 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. |
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... allegory that detach types from particulars; aspects of neoPlatonism that place truth in a transcendent realm; theology (much disputed) that regards other creatures as servants of the human body and soul; the kinds of natural philosophy ...
... allegory that detach types from particulars; aspects of neoPlatonism that place truth in a transcendent realm; theology (much disputed) that regards other creatures as servants of the human body and soul; the kinds of natural philosophy ...
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... Allegory, mechanism, and entering in Among the “idols” of the past was a hierarchical and emblematic cosmos, discussed for example by Arthur O. Lovejoy in The Great Chain of Being, C. S. Lewis in The Discarded Image, and E. M. W. ...
... Allegory, mechanism, and entering in Among the “idols” of the past was a hierarchical and emblematic cosmos, discussed for example by Arthur O. Lovejoy in The Great Chain of Being, C. S. Lewis in The Discarded Image, and E. M. W. ...
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... allegorical, and typological12 connotations, but increasingly subordinated figurative meanings to observation, questioned or discarded oppressive hierarchal assumptions, and expressed specific and affinitive perception of actual animals ...
... allegorical, and typological12 connotations, but increasingly subordinated figurative meanings to observation, questioned or discarded oppressive hierarchal assumptions, and expressed specific and affinitive perception of actual animals ...
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... allegory thins, and we see what the crane sees and join its purposeful attention. In contrast to “the Elizabethan world picture,” however, seventeenthcentury natural philosophers developed the mathematical conception of the universe ...
... allegory thins, and we see what the crane sees and join its purposeful attention. In contrast to “the Elizabethan world picture,” however, seventeenthcentury natural philosophers developed the mathematical conception of the universe ...
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... allegorical, mechanical, instrumental, and commercial appropriation. But “empathy” raises the problem of imposing human emotions and intentions on other species.23 Careful poets draw a careful line between sympathetic affinity and the ...
... allegorical, mechanical, instrumental, and commercial appropriation. But “empathy” raises the problem of imposing human emotions and intentions on other species.23 Careful poets draw a careful line between sympathetic affinity and the ...
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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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Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and Marvell Diane Kelsey McColley Vista previa restringida - 2007 |
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Adam and Eve Adam’s allegorical Andrew Marvell animals Appleton House Bacon beasts beauty Bentley biblical birds body Book called common country house poems Cowley creation creatures divine dominion doth draining Dryden early modern earth ecological English ethical Fairfax fish flesh flow’rs flowers forest fowl fruit Fumifugium garden Genesis Georgics God’s gold Grew habitats Hartlib hath Heav’n heaven Henry Vaughan human hunting hylozoism John Evelyn John Milton kind land language living London Lord man’s Margaret Cavendish Marvell Marvell’s matter metaphor Milton monistic moral mountains natural history natural world nature’s Nehemiah Grew nightingale Nunappleton Ornithology Paradise Lost perception philosophers plants poetry poets political praise Raphael Ray’s reason responsibility river Royal Society Rudrum Samuel Hartlib Satan says sense serpent seventeenthcentury song soul species spirit stanza Sylva thee theology things Thomas thou Topsell tortoise trees Vergil vitalist wild Wilkins womb woods words writes