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As we enter a new millennium ruled by technology, will poetry still matter? The Song of the Earth answers eloquently in the affirmative. A book about our growing alienation from nature, it is also a brilliant meditation on the capacity of the writer to bring us back to earth, our home.
In the first ecological reading of English literature, Jonathan Bate traces the distinctions among "nature," "culture," and "environment" and shows how their meanings have changed since their appearance in the literature of the eighteenth century. An intricate interweaving of climatic, topographical, and political elements poetically deployed, his book ranges from greenhouses in Jane Austen's novels to fruit bats in the poetry of Les Murray, by way of Thomas Hardy's woodlands, Dr. Frankenstein's Creature, John Clare's birds' nests, Wordsworth's rivers, Byron's bear, and an early nineteenth-century novel about an orangutan who stands for Parliament. Though grounded in the English Romantic tradition, the book also explores American, Central European, and Caribbean poets and engages theoretically with Rousseau, Adorno, Bachelard, and especially Heidegger.
The model for an innovative and sophisticated new "ecopoetics," The Song of the Earth is at once an essential history of environmental consciousness and an impassioned argument for the necessity of literature in a time of ecological crisis.
- Sales Rank: #182112 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Harvard University Press
- Published on: 2002-03-08
- Released on: 2002-01-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .88" w x 5.50" l, .90 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 360 pages
- ISBN13: 9780674008182
- Condition: New
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From Publishers Weekly
This ambitious, erudite critical study from University of Liverpool English literature professor Bate seeks to recast Romantic poetry from the Wordsworthian "egotistical sublime" to an ecological one. Romantic literature's love of nature, its fierce individualism and its political radicalism make it a plausible candidate for planting the seeds of the Green movement. As Bate observes, Wordsworth and Coleridge published their seminal Lyrical Ballads in the same year that Thomas Malthus sounded his (premature) warnings of overpopulation. Likewise, he notes how changed global weather patterns resulting from a volcanic eruption could inspire both Byron's "Darkness" and Keats's "To Autumn." Amplifying on his astute readings of these poets, as well as Austen, Bishop, Hardy, Larkin and Stevens, Bate formulates his own idea of "ecopoesis," a poetics of human habitation within nature, instead of pastoralism's facade. Poetry, in effect, imagines locally and inspires globally for Bate. Philosophically, his argument is as much against literary Modernism, and its critical adjunct, New Criticism, as it is against techno-industrialization and postmodern mass culture. His array of philosophical sources, from Rousseau and Burke to Adorno and Heidegger, seeks to cover the bases of canonical and contemporary thought, as well as contrasts with feminist theory, New Historicism and postcolonial criticism. In some respects, however, Bate's tastes are stringently traditional: his ideal of an ecopoet is not the contemporary, environmentally correct Gary Snyder, but the minor Romantic "peasant poet" John Clare. (Sept.)
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From Kirkus Reviews
An engaging, closely researched selection of poets whose mediating powers between humans and the natural world have helped restore our links to the earth.Bate (English/Univ. of Liverpool) clearly illustrates the importance of poetry in expressing the human bond with nature. He deploys the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Edward Brathwaite, Les Murray, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Paul Celan-for starters. He discusses "Byron's easy yoking of politics and nature," Keats's "meditation on how human culture can only function through links and reciprocal relations with nature," and how John Clare functions "as a scapegoat: only by alienating himself can he restore us to the oikos." There is a good deal of jargon ("Fanon and Simone de Beauvoir taught us that the defining Others . . ."), but when Bate tenders a few ideas of his own, the reading gets good. His consideration of the role of weather in such poems as Keats's "To Autumn" ("I propose that in order to read it livingly in the age of ecocide we must begin with the knowledge that we have no choice but to live with the weather") is inventive and revealing, as is his sense of the organic ("metre itself-a quiet but persistent music, a recurring cycle, a heartbeat-is an answering to nature's own rhythms, an echoing of the song of the earth itself"). It may well be that a poem can be a "revelation of dwelling" (as opposed to a simple prose narrative)-but more to the point is "the possibility that certain textmarks called poems can bring back to our memory humankind's ancient knowledge that without landmarks we are lost."An eccentric but worthwhile study. -- Copyright © 2000 Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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The Song of the Earth begins from readings in the ecology of literature from the eighteenth century to the present day. Jane Austen, Cowper, Hardy, Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Bishop, Les Murray and others are explored for what they tell us about changing attitudes to landscape, to place, and what Bate calls, in a deliberate ecological metaphor, the ‘complex and delicate web’ that holds together culture and environment…[this book] is the best of things, a book which will help its readers to think new thoughts―thoughts about poetry, about places, and about themselves. (Grevel Lindop Times Literary Supplement)
[Bate] establishes the reality of the ecological theme in English poetry. Building on a broad literature in philosophy and biology as well as literary studies, Bate defines ecological poetry as that which ‘sees into the life of things’ (Wordsworth) but also respects the integrity of the physical world… This book has a powerful impact… [Bates’s] moral concerns, deeply held and deeply considered, never blur the sharp edges of literary or natural fact. His readings are compelling rediscoveries of poems we thought we knew already… The Song of the Earth fairly hums with intelligence and passion. It is itself a demonstration of the interplay between literature and nature that it celebrates. It could change your life. (Tom D’Evelyn Providence Journal 2000-11-26)
Jonathan Bate’s The Song of the Earth provides a visionary agenda for all subsequent ecocritical writing. Bate has broadened the intellectual and critical foundation of his earlier ecocritical work… When Bate masters historical evidence and insightful analyses of discrete Romantic writing, as he does in [the chapter] Major Weather, he achieves a broad authority that is captivating and seductive. (Mark Lussier The Wordsworth Circle)
This ambitious, erudite critical study…seeks to recast Romantic poetry from the Wordsworthian ‘egotistical sublime’ to an ecological one. Romantic literature’s love of nature, its fierce individualism and its political radicalism make it a plausible candidate for planting the seeds of the Green movement… Amplifying on his astute readings of [poetry], Bate formulates his own idea of ‘ecopoesis,’ a poetics of human habitation within nature, instead of pastoralism’s façade. (Publishers Weekly)
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