The Song of the Earth
Jonathan Bate, "The Song of the Earth"
Harvard University Press | March 8, 2002 | English | ISBN: 0674008189 | 360 pages | PDF | 19 Mb
Harvard University Press | March 8, 2002 | English | ISBN: 0674008189 | 360 pages | PDF | 19 Mb
This ambitious, erudite critical study from University of Liverpool English literature professor Bate seeks to recast Romantic poetry from the Wordsworthian"egotistical sublime"to an ecological one. Romantic literature's love of nature, its fierce individualism and its political radicalism make it a plausible candidate for planting the seeds of the Green movement. As Bate observes, Wordsworth and Coleridge published their seminal Lyrical Ballads in the same year that Thomas Malthus sounded his (premature) warnings of overpopulation. Likewise, he notes how changed global weather patterns resulting from a volcanic eruption could inspire both Byron's"Darkness"and Keats's"To Autumn."
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