The focus of this study is the perception of nature in the language of poetry and the languages of natural philosophy, technology, theology, and global exploration, primarily in seventeenth-century England. Its premise is that language and the perception of nature vitally affect each other and that seventeenth-century poets, primarily John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and Henry Vaughan, but also Margaret Cavendish, Thomas Traherne, Anne Finch, and others, responded to experimental proto-science and new technology in ways that we now call 'ecological'- concerned with watersheds and habitats and the lives of all creatures. It provides close readings of works by these poets in the contexts of natural history, philosophy, and theology as well as technology and land use, showing how they responded to what are currently considered ecological issues: deforestation, mining, air pollution, drainage of wetlands, destruction of habitats, the sentience and intelligence of animals, overbuilding, global commerce, the politics of land use, and relations between social justice and justice towards the other-than-human world. In this important book, Diane McColley demonstrates the language of poetry, the language of responsible science, and the language of moral and political philosophy all to be necessary parts of public discourse.
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Diane Kelsey McColley is Professor II Emeritus at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden, USA. She is the author of Milton's Eve; A Gust for Paradise: Milton's Eden and the Visual Arts; and Poetry and Music in Seventeenth-Century England.
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Andrew Marvell's Upon Appleton House is a good starting place because it is, for a start, about a place; because it carries ecological and political concerns we still share; because it gathers and transforms traditional topics or "places" of poetic inventionmetaphorical, allegorical, emblematic, and typological, the latter largely from the Book of Genesis; because it weaves these together with observation of the actual place and its inhabitants; and because Marvell's playful language is serious, lightsome, resonant, witty, unsettling, and ever fresh. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Paradise Lost, Royal Society, John Evelyn, Henry Vaughan, Margaret Cavendish, Nehemiah Grew, Oxford English Dictionary, Complete Poems, Complete Prose Works, Samuel Hartlib, Alan Rudrum, Upon Appleton House, George Sandys, Milton's God, Francis Bacon, Spirit of God, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Henry More, Thomas Vaughan, John Leonard, Sir Thomas Browne, New Atlantis, Book of Job, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins Browse Sample Pages:
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Andrew Marvell's Upon Appleton House is a good starting place because it is, for a start, about a place; because it carries ecological and political concerns we still share; because it gathers and transforms traditional topics or "places" of poetic inventionmetaphorical, allegorical, emblematic, and typological, the latter largely from the Book of Genesis; because it weaves these together with observation of the actual place and its inhabitants; and because Marvell's playful language is serious, lightsome, resonant, witty, unsettling, and ever fresh. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
omnific word, animal theology, philosophical language, kind that lives, one first matter Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Paradise Lost, Royal Society, John Evelyn, Henry Vaughan, Margaret Cavendish, Nehemiah Grew, Oxford English Dictionary, Complete Poems, Complete Prose Works, Samuel Hartlib, Alan Rudrum, Upon Appleton House, George Sandys, Milton's God, Francis Bacon, Spirit of God, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Henry More, Thomas Vaughan, John Leonard, Sir Thomas Browne, New Atlantis, Book of Job, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins Browse Sample Pages:
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