Animals in Classic American Poetry, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Animals in Classic American Poetry
- How Natural History Inspired Great Verse
- Publisher:
- John Cullen Gruesser
- Publisher:
- Texas A&M University Press, 05/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781648433030
- Item number:
- 12146114
- Volume:
- 248 Pages
- Weight:
- 454 g
- Format:
- 228 x 150 mm
- Thickness:
- 20 mm
- Release date:
- 23.5.2025
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
"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"--