Abstract
Snyder writes about nature to articulate the interconnectedness of all things and particularly, the integration and interpenetration of the imagination with the natural world; yet his work articulates, too, the double vision of the Romantic and modern pastoral, including the disjunction that competes with and accompanies any vision of interconnectedness. Greg Garrard’s critical but positive assessment of Snyder’s poetic accomplishment is relevant here:
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Notes
Gary Snyder, A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics and Watersheds (1995; Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2008), 168.
Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957), 215.
George Bornstein, Transformations of Romanticism in Yeats, Eliot and Stevens (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976), 163.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings, ed. Joseph Wood Krutch (New York: Bantam, 1981), Bantam Classics, 363.
Robinson Jeffers, The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, ed. Tim Hunt, 5 vols. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001), 1377.
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Tovey, P. (2013). Snyder’s Twentieth—Century Eco—Romanticism. In: The Transatlantic Eco-Romanticism of Gary Snyder. The New Urban Atlantic. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137340153_3
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