Romantic Ecology (Routledge Revivals)
Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition
By Jonathan Bate
To Be Published June 3rd 2013 by Routledge – 132 pages
Series: Routledge Revivals
Description
First published in 1991, Romantic Ecology reassesses the poetry of William Wordsworth in the context of the abiding pastoral tradition in English Literature. Jonathan Bate explores the politics of poetry and argues that contrary to critics who suggest that the Wordsworth was a reactionary who failed to represent the harsh economic reality of his native Lake District, the poet’s politics were fundamentally ‘green’. As our first truly ecological poet, Wordsworth articulated a powerful and enduring vision of human integration with nature which exercised a formative influence on later conservation movements and is of immediate relevance to great environmental issues today. Challenging the orthodoxies of new historicist criticism, Jonathan Bate sets a new agenda for the study of Romanticism in the 1990s.
Contents
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. A language that is ever green 2. The economy of nature 3. The moral of landscape 4. The naming of places; Notes; Index
Name: Romantic Ecology (Routledge Revivals): Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition (Hardback) – Routledge
Description: By Jonathan Bate. First published in 1991, Romantic Ecology reassesses the poetry of William Wordsworth in the context of the abiding pastoral tradition in English Literature. Jonathan Bate explores the politics of poetry and argues that contrary to critics who suggest...
Categories: Romanticism, Ecology - Environment Studies, Poetry, Literature, Literature Readers & Sourcebooks
