Poetry and Animals

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POETRY AND ANIMALS BLURRING THE BOUNDARIES with THE HUMAN ONNO OERLEMANS Columbia University New York ...

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Nature poetry should not be taken to be avoiding anthropomorphism, but to be enacting it, thoughtfully. —DON MCKAY, VIS À VIS ...

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CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi INTRODUCTION 1 1 THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY: FROM CHAUCER TO GRAY 27 2 POEMS OF THE ANIMAL 52 3 POETRY A ...

XCONTENTS CODA 192 Notes 197 Bibliography 217 Index 227 ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I began this book with the realization that while poetry has helped me to see, explore, and understand the compl ...

XIIACKNOWLEDGMENTS The anonymous readers to whom they submitted my manuscript gave much valuable guidance as I revised the text ...

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I n 1936 the scholar Elizabeth Atkins published an article in PMLA called “Man and Animals in Recent Poetry.” In her essay Atkin ...

2INTRODUCTION Shelleyan notion of the relationship between poetry and intellectual progress in society, Atkins insists that thi ...

INTRODUCTION of all kinds of life other than human are becoming extinct (between one thousand and twenty thousand times the rat ...

4INTRODUCTION poetry.^9 As Marjorie Garber wonders, even in J. M. Coetzee’s powerful The Lives of Animals, a text that continue ...

INTRODUCTION Kumin, Sarah Lindsay, Don McKay, Pattiann Rogers, Charles Simic, and Robert Wrigley. The absence of sustained crit ...