381Note:Bold-faced numbers refer to chapters
devoted to particular poets or books; italicized
numbersrefer to pages on which the sources
for each chapter are listed.
Abnaki Indians, 152
Abraham (Biblical figure), 31
Adam (Biblical figure), 20, 31, 260, 261; nam-
ing of creatures by, 2, 21–22, 66, 81, 303,
336; Walcott likened to, 335; Walt Whitman
as, 70
Adams, Ansel, 14, 170, 183, 213
“Adam’s Task” (Hollander), 21
Africa, 286–87, 336–37, 355
African Americans, xiv
“After a Journey” (Hardy), 91
“After Apple-Picking” (Frost), xiv, 120–22,
126, 133, 139, 256, 272, 322
Ahwahnee Indians, 12
Alaska, 282–89, 353
Alfred, Bill, 269
Alliteration, 30, 41, 53, 93, 157, 219; Anglo-
Saxon, 32, 303, 330
Alps, in Coleridge on, 45; Hopkins, 100, 101;
Wordsworth, 37–38, 49, 67
Al Que Quiere (Williams), 144
Alturas de Macchu Picchu (Neruda), 196–201,
285, 338, 342, 356
American Revolution, 38
Amichai, Yehuda, 32, 281
Ammons, A. R., 14, 246, 294–300,369;
“Corsons Inlet,” 298; “Easter Morning,”
298–300; “Enough,” 295; “Expressions of
Sea Level,” 297; “Motion,” 297; “Motion’s
Holdings,” 297; “Small Song,” 294;
“So I Said I am Ezra,” 296
Analogies. See Similes
“Anasazi” (Snyder), 351–52
“Andrée Rexroth” (Rexroth), 213–14
Anglo-Saxon language, in Hopkins, 95;
Hughes, 292, 330, 331, 333; Merwin, 303;
Williams, 145, 150. See also Beowulf;
“The Seafarer”
Animals, xiv, 15, 165–66, 218, 329; in Bible,
1–2, 5, 25–26, 165–66, 218; Bishop, 218,
228–39, 286, 329; Clare, 62; Frost, 232, 310;
Haines, 286, 287; Hughes, 327–28, 333–34;
Jeffers, 174; Kaufman, 276; Kinnell, 183,
310–14, 329; Kumin, 290–93, 329; Kunitz,
209; Lawrence, 162, 167–69; Levertov, 271;
Lowell, 260, 261–64, 329; Merwin, 301,
303–4; Moore, 176–83; Native Americans,
8–11, 221, 227; Oppen, 224–27, 244, 291,
310, 329; Rexroth, 213; Rich, 328–29;
Roethke, 218, 221, 329; Snyder, 329; Staf-
ford, 252, 253, 255; Stevens, 136, 137;
Swenson, 239–40. See also Bees; Birds;
Butterflies; Fish; Snakes; Whales; Specific
kinds of animals
Animism, 218
“The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory”
(Walcott), 338
Apache Indians, 1
Araucania (Chile), 194, 197, 198, 201
Arcadia, 105
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 11
Aridjis, Homero, 357
“The Armadillo” (Bishop), 237–38, 291, 329Index