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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825547103321

Autore

Costello Bonnie

Titolo

Shifting ground : reinventing landscape in modern American poetry / / Bonnie Costello

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, : Harvard University Press, 2003

ISBN

0-674-02987-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Disciplina

811/.50932

Soggetti

American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Landscapes in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-216) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Shifting Ground -- 1 Introduction: Frame and Flux -- 2 Frost’s Crossings -- 3 Stevens’ Eccentricity -- 4 Moore’s America -- 5 Amy Clampitt: Nomad Exquisite -- 6 A. R. Ammons: Pilgrim, Sage, Ordinary Man -- 7 John Ashbery: Landscapeople -- 8 Epilogue: “The Machine in the Garden” -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Just 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.