McColley, Diane Kelsey. Poetry and ecology in the age of Milton and Marvell

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-245) and index

Contents

Introduction : the state of nature and the problem of language -- Perceiving habitats : Marvell and the language of sensuous reciprocity -- Earth, mining, monotheism, and mountain theology -- Air, water, woods -- Hylozoic poetry : the lives of plants -- Zoic poetry : animals, ornithology, and the ethics of empathy -- Animal ethics and radical justice -- Milton's prophetic epics