Nature, Environment and Poetry - Lidström, Susanna
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The environmental challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century are not only acute and grave, they are also unprecedented in kind, complexity and scope. Nonetheless, the political response to problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss and widespread pollution continues to fall short. To address these challenges it seems clear that we need to find new ways of thinking about the relationship between humans and nature, local and global, and the past, present and future. One place to look for such new ideas is in poetry, designed to contain multiple levels of meaning at once,…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
The environmental challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century are not only acute and grave, they are also unprecedented in kind, complexity and scope. Nonetheless, the political response to problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss and widespread pollution continues to fall short. To address these challenges it seems clear that we need to find new ways of thinking about the relationship between humans and nature, local and global, and the past, present and future. One place to look for such new ideas is in poetry, designed to contain multiple levels of meaning at once, challenge the imagination, and evoke responses that are based on something more than scientific consensus and rationale. This ecocritical book traces the environmental sensibilities of two Anglophone poets; Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), and British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes (1930-1998). It follows how their respective developing poetics reflect the accelerating environmental crises of the twentieth century, analysing how they address relationships such as between language and ecology, nature and religion, human and animal, and history and memory. While both have been well studied by critical thinkers before, this book reads their poems afresh for their understandings of local places and global crises in the century of the environment. This innovative book is aimed at students of environment and literature or the relationship between poetry and environmental humanities, as well as at anyone with an interest in the poetry of Ted Hughes or Seamus Heaney.
This ecocritical book traces the environmental sensibilities of two Anglophone poets; Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), and Ted Hughes (1930-1998), one of the 20th century's great English poets. It follows how their respective careers follow the accelerating environmental crises of the 20th century, and how their poems address the relationship between language and ecology, nature and nation, human and animal. While both have been well-studied by critical thinkers before, this book reads their poems afresh for their understandings of local places and global crisis in the century of the environment.
Autorenporträt
Susanna Lidström is a postdoctoral researcher at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, with the Environmental Humanities Laboratory, at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.