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Greening the Lyre covers important and neglected ground—environmental language theory. David W. Gilcrest poses two overarching questions: To what extent does contemporary nature poetry represent a recapitulation of familiar poetics? And, to what extent does contemporary nature poetry engage a poetics that stakes out new territory? The author addresses these questions with important thinkers, especially Kenneth Burke, and considers such poets as Frost, Kunitz, Heaney, Ammons, Cardenal, and Rich. This book will be of great value to anyone in the environmental studies field.

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The greatest service of this book is that it goes beyond merely classifying the poetic approaches of normative ecology. By adamantly privileging one poetic strategy over others, Greening the Lyre is certain to spark a useful and lively debate among scholars. -- Laird Christensen, ISLE, Winter 2003 --Laird Christensen ISLE

The greatest service of this book is that it goes beyond merely classifying the poetic approaches of normative ecology. By adamantly privileging one poetic strategy over others, Greening the Lyre is certain to spark a useful and lively debate among scholars. --;u>ISLE, Winter 2003 --Laird Christensen ISLE

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David W. Gilcrest is an assistant professor of English at Carroll College in southeastern Wisconsin, where he teaches rhetoric, romanticism, and environmental studies. Gilcrest lives in Waukesha, Wisconsin. ""

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