Shifting ground : reinventing landscape in modern American poetry / Bonnie Costello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Costello, Bonnie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Landscapes in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Just as the look of the American landscape has changed since the nineteenth century, so has our idea of landscape. Here Bonnie Costello reads six twentieth-century American poets who have reflected and shaped this transformation and in the process renovated landscape by drawing new images from the natural world and creating new forms for imagining the earth and our relation to it.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Abbreviations

Shifting Ground

1 Introduction: Frame and Flux

2 Frost’s Crossings

3 Stevens’ Eccentricity

4 Moore’s America

5 Amy Clampitt: Nomad Exquisite

6 A. R. Ammons: Pilgrim, Sage, Ordinary Man

7 John Ashbery: Landscapeople

8 Epilogue: “The Machine in the Garden”

Notes

Works Cited

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-216) and index.

ISBN:

9780674029873

0674029879

OCLC:

449876308