Shifting Ground - Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The look of the American landscape has changed since the 19th century; so has our idea of landscape. Costello reads six 20th-century American poets who have reflected and shaped this transformation and in the process renovated landscape with new images from the natural world and new forms for imagining the earth and our relation to it.

Product details

• Authors: Bonnie Costello, Costello Bonnie
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2003
• EAN: 9780674008946
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00894-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 250 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, POETRY / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, American English, Literature: history & criticism, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets