Poetry's Nature
four lectures
$91.27
- Hardcover
160 pages
- Release Date
29 April 2025
Summary
The Living Word: Poetry, Nature, and the Art of Becoming
How is poetry a living art? This is the question at the heart of The Living Word: Poetry, Nature, and the Art of Becoming. Although it is common to speak of “nature poetry,” Stewart contends that the essential nature of poetry is bound up with the natural world: by looking to nature, we can better understand poetry and, in turn, our own situation within nature.
The study draws on contemporary physics and philo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198840947 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198840942 |
| Series: | Clarendon Lectures in English |
| Author: | Susan Stewart |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 29 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 328g |
| Dimensions: | 223mm x 143mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Susan Stewart
Susan Stewart is a poet, critic, and translator, and the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities, emerita, at Princeton University. Her books of poems include Columbarium, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and Cinder: New and Selected Poems. Her prose works include The Ruins Lesson, The Poet’s Freedom, Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, and On Longing. A former MacArthur Fellow, Berlin Fellow, and Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she also is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
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