{"product_id":"the-song-of-the-earth-9780674008182","title":"The Song of the Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs we enter a new millennium ruled by technology, will poetry still matter? \u003ci\u003eThe Song of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e answers eloquently in the affirmative. A book about our growing alienation from nature, it is also a brilliant meditation on the capacity of the writer to bring us back to earth, our home. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the first ecological reading of English literature, Jonathan Bate traces the distinctions among \"nature,\" \"culture,\" and \"environment\" and shows how their meanings have changed since their appearance in the literature of the eighteenth century. An intricate interweaving of climatic, topographical, and political elements poetically deployed, his book ranges from greenhouses in Jane Austen's novels to fruit bats in the poetry of Les Murray, by way of Thomas Hardy's woodlands, Dr. Frankenstein's Creature, John Clare's birds' nests, Wordsworth's rivers, Byron's bear, and an early nineteenth-century novel about an orangutan who stands for Parliament. Though grounded in the English Romantic tradition, the book also explores American, Central European, and Caribbean poets and engages theoretically with Rousseau, Adorno, Bachelard, and especially Heidegger. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe model for an innovative and sophisticated new \"ecopoetics,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Song of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is at once an essential history of environmental consciousness and an impassioned argument for the necessity of literature in a time of ecological crisis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBate, Jonathan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jonathan Bate is Professor of English Literature at the University of Warwick.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460652536082,"sku":"9780674008182","price":42.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_97b38185-6515-4014-b8ec-decc6b31eef7.jpg?v=1730044714","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-song-of-the-earth-9780674008182","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}