LEADER 04706nam 2200589 450 001 9910808291503321 005 20230803203713.0 010 $a1-60938-291-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000186946 035 $a(EBL)1733904 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001291403 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11772409 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001291403 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11247118 035 $a(PQKB)10793706 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1733904 035 $a(OCoLC)884263649 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse40200 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1733904 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10898812 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000186946 100 $a20140807h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA place for humility $eWhitman, Dickinson, and the natural world /$fby Christine Gerhardt 210 1$aIowa City, Iowa :$cUniversity of Iowa Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (286 p.) 225 1 $aIowa Whitman Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-60938-271-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"A Place for Humility examines Dickinson's and Whitman's poetry in conjunction with this important change in environmental perception, and explores the links between their poetic projects in the context of developing nineteenth-century environmental thought. Gerhardt argues that Dickinson's and Whitman's poetry participates in this shift in different but related ways, and that their involvement with their culture's growing environmental sensibilities constitutes an important connection between their disparate poetic projects"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are widely acknowledged as two of America's foremost nature poets, primarily due to their explorations of natural phenomena as evocative symbols for cultural developments, individual experiences, and poetry itself. Yet for all their metaphorical suggestiveness, Dickinson's and Whitman's poems about the natural world neither preclude nor erase nature's relevance as an actual living environment. In their respective poetic projects, the earth matters both figuratively, as a realm of the imagination, and also as the physical ground that is profoundly affected by human action. This double perspective, and the ways in which it intersects with their formal innovations, points beyond their traditional status as curiously disparate icons of American nature poetry. That both of them not only approach nature as an important subject in its own right, but also address human-nature relationships in ethical terms, invests their work with important environmental overtones. Dickinson and Whitman developed their environmentally suggestive poetics at roughly the same historical moment, at a time when a major shift was occurring in American culture's view and understanding of the natural world. Just as they were achieving poetic maturity, the dominant view of wilderness was beginning to shift from obstacle or exploitable resource to an endangered treasure in need of conservation and preservation. A Place for Humility examines Dickinson's and Whitman's poetry in conjunction with this important change in American environmental perception, exploring the links between their poetic projects within the context of developing nineteenth-century environmental thought. Christine Gerhardt argues that each author's poetry participates in this shift in different but related ways, and that their involvement with their culture's growing environmental sensibilities constitutes an important connection between their disparate poetic projects. There may be few direct links between Dickinson's "letter to the World" and Whitman's "language experiment," but via a web of environmentally-oriented discourses, their poetry engages in a cultural conversation about the natural world and the possibilities and limitations of writing about it-a conversation in which their thematic and formal choices meet on a surprising number of levels. "--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aIowa Whitman series. 606 $aAmerican poetry$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNature in literature 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNature in literature. 676 $a811.009/36 686 $aLIT014000$2bisacsh 700 $aGerhardt$b Christine$01717755 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808291503321 996 $aA place for humility$94114258 997 $aUNINA