The Transatlantic Eco-Romanticism of Gary Snyder

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Paige Tovey

   Pages 1-25

3. The Romantic Pastoral: Snyder’s Ecological Literary Inheritance

   • Paige Tovey

   Pages 27-47

4. Snyder’s Twentieth—Century Eco—Romanticism

   • Paige Tovey

   Pages 49-68

5. Romantic Aspiration, Romantic Doubt

   • Paige Tovey

   Pages 69-88

6. Snyder’s Post—Romantic Ecological Vision: The Shaman as Poet/Prophet

   • Paige Tovey

   Pages 89-110

7. The Measured Chaos of Snyder’s Ecopoetic form

   • Paige Tovey

   Pages 111-132

8. Snyder’s Experimentations with Post—Romantic Ecological Form

   • Paige Tovey

   Pages 133-154

9. Mountains as Romantic Emblems of Revelation

   • Paige Tovey

   Pages 155-181

10. Rivers as Romantic Emblems of Creation

    • Paige Tovey

    Pages 183-207

11. Back Matter

    Pages 209-244

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Tracing connections between Gary Snyder and his Romantic and Transcendentalist predecessors - Wordsworth, Blake, Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau - this study explores the tension between urbanization and overindustrialization. The dialectical relationship between Snyder and his predecessors reminds readers that nature is never a simple concept.

• poet
• Romanticism
• twentieth century
• William Blake
• William Wordsworth
• Wordsworth
• British and Irish Literature

"Paige Tovey's lucid study places Gary Snyder convincingly within an Anglo-American Romantic inheritance. Alert equally to continuities and differences, she enriches our sense both of Snyder's complexities and of the extraordinary suggestiveness of the great authors who stand behind him." - Seamus Perry, Fellow of Balliol College, University of Oxford, UK

"This lively but also scholarly book shows why we should think again about Gary Snyder. It productively enlarges our sense of the contexts with which his work engages, while offering impressively perceptive readings of individual poems." - Tony Sharpe, Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University, UK

Paige Tovey holds a PhD in English Literary Studies from Durham University, UK where she was the recipient of a MHRA Research Associateship (2010-2012) within the Department of English. She has published on subjects ranging from the influence of Alexander Pope on Percy Bysshe Shelley to the post-Romantic poetic form of Gary Snyder.

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