The Transatlantic Eco-Romanticism of Gary Snyder

• Author(s): Paige Tovey,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 244
• ISBN_10: 1137340150
  ISBN_13: 9781137340153
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / General , Science / Environmental Science , Literary Criticism / Poetry , Literary Criticism / American / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative ,

Description:... 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.