Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems
46 e wishes instead “to look into some beautiful Scenery—for poetical purposes,” says John Keats (1795–1821), de- clining a week ...
JOHN KEATS EKING IT OUT 47 tish highlands. In rugged and already Romantically picturesque landscape, Keats saw, really saw, thin ...
Joseph Farington, Waterfall at Ambleside. From T. H. Horne, The Lakes of Lancashire, Westmoreland and Cumberland, delineated in ...
JOHN KEATS EKING IT OUT 49 trees and edges of rock to prevent our tumbling headlong,” Brown says. He feels unsteady, but “Keats ...
50 PA RT O N E Crying “happy” and chanting “ever,” six times over, masks a fear that our lives can’t live up to art. Then Keats ...
Keats, “To Autumn” MS Keats 2.27, By permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University. ...
52 PA RT O N E about it,” Keats writes a friend. And to his brother George that same day: “Now the time is beautiful. I take a w ...
JOHN KEATS EKING IT OUT 53 Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting carel ...
54 PA RT O N E The redbreast whistles from a garden croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. First asking about loss, ...
JOHN KEATS EKING IT OUT 55 choosing “between despair & Energy.” What puns do is finesse a dire choice, so that bonus play of ...
56 unning everywhere here, John Clare (1793–1864) tells his children about his own childhood in the village of Helpston and East ...
JOHN CLARE AT HOME IN HELPSTON 57 Clare ’s vigor, finesse, integrity, surprise, and joy have charmed Nobel laureate Seamus Heane ...
58 PA RT O N E Even an early unpublished poem, recalling childhood winter mornings, gets that energy into a loosely woven sonnet ...
JOHN CLARE AT HOME IN HELPSTON 59 Snug lie her curious eggs in number five Of deadened green or rather olive-brown, And the old ...
Helpston parish, before Enclosure. Courtesy of John Barrell, from John Barrell, The Idea of Landscape and the Sense of Place, 17 ...
Helpston parish, after Enclosure. Courtesy of John Barrell, from John Barrell, The Idea of Landscape and the Sense of Place, 173 ...
62 PA RT O N E bounds on a world that once centered in Helpston and ranged out freely in the circle of a child ’s roving. That “ ...
JOHN CLARE AT HOME IN HELPSTON 63 children to feed, publishing troubles, anguish at enclosure, and an unwanted move from his bir ...
64 f pure American breed, large and lusty —age thirty-six years,” an early review of Leaves of Grass depicts its author, “never ...
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass frontispiece, 1855. Archives, Beeghly Library, courtesy of the Bayley/Whitman Collection of Ohio W ...
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