Can Poetry Save the Earth?

Contents

List of Illustrations............................................................................................................xi Preface The Poetry of Earth Is Never Dead.......................................................................................xiii Introduction Care in Such a World...............................................................................................1 PART ONE "stony rocks for the conies" Singing Ecology unto the Lord......................................................................19 "Western wind, when will thou blow" Anon Was an Environmentalist................................................................28 "The stationary blasts of waterfalls" Blake, the Wordsworths, and the Dung......................................................34 "The white Eddy-rose ... obstinate in resurrection" Coleridge Imagining.........................................................39 "last oozings hours by hours" John Keats Eking It Out...........................................................................46 "Its only ... read full excerpt from Can Poetry Save the Earth? ebook