Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and MarvellRoutledge, 2017 M03 2 - 276 pages The focus of this study is the perception of nature in the language of poetry and the languages of natural philosophy, technology, theology, and global exploration, primarily in seventeenth-century England. Its premise is that language and the perception of nature vitally affect each other and that seventeenth-century poets, primarily John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and Henry Vaughan, but also Margaret Cavendish, Thomas Traherne, Anne Finch, and others, responded to experimental proto-science and new technology in ways that we now call 'ecological' - concerned with watersheds and habitats and the lives of all creatures. It provides close readings of works by these poets in the contexts of natural history, philosophy, and theology as well as technology and land use, showing how they responded to what are currently considered ecological issues: deforestation, mining, air pollution, drainage of wetlands, destruction of habitats, the sentience and intelligence of animals, overbuilding, global commerce, the politics of land use, and relations between social justice and justice towards the other-than-human world. In this important book, Diane McColley demonstrates the language of poetry, the language of responsible science, and the language of moral and political philosophy all to be necessary parts of public discourse. |
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... God and the Matter of Chaos”; Fallon, Milton among the Philosophers; Rogers, The Matter of Revolution; Cummins, “Milton's God and the Matter of Creation.” 19 I am indebted, as ever, to Arthur E. Barker, for planting the seed of this ...
... God and the Matter of Chaos”; Fallon, Milton among the Philosophers; Rogers, The Matter of Revolution; Cummins, “Milton's God and the Matter of Creation.” 19 I am indebted, as ever, to Arthur E. Barker, for planting the seed of this ...
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... God's garden, epitome of nature, as the domain of a human race whose calling was to dress and keep its pristine abundance—to care for and preserve it according to its nature, a vocation practiced in Paradise Lost as in no other version ...
... God's garden, epitome of nature, as the domain of a human race whose calling was to dress and keep its pristine abundance—to care for and preserve it according to its nature, a vocation practiced in Paradise Lost as in no other version ...
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... God gave man two privileges, reason and speech; but by presumptuous building “this benefit of God in Nature was turned into a conspiracie against God and Nature . . . . in stead of thankefulnesse to god, and honouring his name, they ...
... God gave man two privileges, reason and speech; but by presumptuous building “this benefit of God in Nature was turned into a conspiracie against God and Nature . . . . in stead of thankefulnesse to god, and honouring his name, they ...
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... God. Bentley thinks it wholly distinct from soul or spirit. The passage on the limits of perception comes in Sermon III, in a consideration of the human body as proof of God's wisdom and beneficence. Considering the many parts of a ...
... God. Bentley thinks it wholly distinct from soul or spirit. The passage on the limits of perception comes in Sermon III, in a consideration of the human body as proof of God's wisdom and beneficence. Considering the many parts of a ...
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Contents
Earth Mining Monotheism and Mountain Theology | |
Air Water Woods | |
The Lives of Plants | |
Animals Ornithology and the Ethics of Empathy | |
Animal Ethics and Radical Justice | |
Miltons Prophetic Epics | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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