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Animals in Classic American Poetry : How Natural History Inspired Great Verse.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gruesser, John Cullen.
- Series:
- Integrative Natural History Series, Sponsored by the Museum of Natural History Collections, Sam Houston State University Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animals in literature.
- American poetry--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Critiques litteraires.
- Essays.
- Literary criticism.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "The ten essays in Animals in Classic American Poetry: How Natural History Inspired Great Verse showcase how the natural history of and imagery relating to animals have inspired some of America's best-known and most beloved poets. The book highlights exceptional literary verse from the first American to publish a book of poems, Puritan Anne Bradstreet in the seventeenth century, to the African American writer Yusef Komunyakaa and the Native American Joy Harjo, a recent US poet laureate, in the twenty-first century. Essays on the well-known figures Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, and Elizabeth Bishop round out this pathbreaking collection. Animals in Classic American Poetry provides a glimpse into the brilliant, burrowing, and passionate minds of some of America's most revered poets. Whether it is Poe's haunting, hybrid description of a raven, Emily Dickinson's nostalgic yet chilling observations about a garter snake, or Robert Frost's unsettled and unsettling ruminations about a spider consuming a moth, each poet reflects on what it means to be a nonhuman and a human animal"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half-title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. "In Shady Woods I'll Sit and Sing": Human and Nonhuman Creatures in Anne Bradstreet's Poetry
- Chapter 2. "Neither Brute nor Human": Edgar Allan Poe's Poetical Critters and Some Subsequent Revampings
- Chapter 3. "Animality" and the "Clef of the Universes" in the Poetry of Walt Whitman
- Chapter 4. Emily Dickinson's Geographic Imagination
- Chapter 5. "Eden's Bad Boy": Humans and the Animal World in Melville's Poetry
- Chapter 6. "Versed in Country Things": Animals in the Poetry of Robert Frost
- Chapter 7. Marianne Moore's Artist Animals
- Chapter 8. Noticing Other Species-and Our Own-in Elizabeth Bishop
- Chapter 9. Learning from Animals in Yusef Komunyakaa's Poetry
- Chapter 10. Cawing in the Dark: Avian Alterity in the Poetry of Joy Harjo
- List of Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-64843-304-9
- OCLC:
- 1521527345
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