Romantic Ecology (Routledge Revivals): Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition - Softcover

Bate, Jonathan

 
9780415856652: Romantic Ecology (Routledge Revivals): Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition
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ISBN 10: 0415856655 ISBN 13: 9780415856652
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

First published in 1991, Romantic Ecology reassesses the poetry of William Wordsworth in the context of the abiding pastoral tradition in English Literature. Jonathan Bate explores the politics of poetry and argues that contrary to critics who suggest that the Wordsworth was a reactionary who failed to represent the harsh economic reality of his native Lake District, the poet’s politics were fundamentally ‘green’. As our first truly ecological poet, Wordsworth articulated a powerful and enduring vision of human integration with nature which exercised a formative influence on later conservation movements and is of immediate relevance to great environmental issues today. Challenging the orthodoxies of new historicist criticism, Jonathan Bate sets a new agenda for the study of Romanticism in the 1990s.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415856655
ISBN 13 
9780415856652
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
144

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