INDEX 383“The Brain is wider than the Sky”
(Dickinson), 29, 30, 69–70
Brancusi, Constantin, 151
Brazil, 237–38
Breughel, Pieter, 132, 151, 278
Bridges, Robert, 96, 98
“Brimming Water” (Tu Fu), 211
British Columbia, 136–37
Brower, David, 170
Brown, Charles, 46, 49
Bruchac, Joseph, 357
Bryant, William Cullen, 115
Buffalo (bison), 9–12, 221
Burns, Robert, 29, 32
Buson (poet), 4
Butterflies, 6, 78–81, 87, 142, 195, 242–44,
329
“By Frazier Creek Falls” (Snyder), 353
“By Morning” (Swenson), 241–42
Byrant, William Cullen, 68
Cadence.See Rhythm
Cain (Biblical figure), 31
Calder, Alexander, 181
California, and Ansel Adams, 170; Jeffers,
171–74; Levertov, 266–67; Mount Tamal-
pais, 116, 213–14; Native Americans, 1, 252,
287–88, 321; San Francisco, 115–16, 215,
275, 344, 347; Snyder, 344, 352; Stafford,
- See also Specific mountain ranges and
universities in
Canadians, xiv, 12. See also British Columbia;
Nova Scotia
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), 3, 32
Cardenal, Ernesto, 150
Caribbean, 14, 335–43
Carroll, Lewis, 88, 329
Carson, Rachel, xiv, 10, 13, 160, 303, 352, 360
Cascade Mountains, 14, 286, 344, 348
“The Castaway” (Walcott), 336
Celan, Paul, 86, 155, 209–10, 281, 351
“The Centaur” (Swenson), 240–41
“Ceremony” (Stafford), 253
Césaire, Aimé, 336
Cézanne, Paul, 155, 339
Chambi, Martín, 197
Chatwin, Bruce, 1, 359
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 3, 32, 146
Cherokee Indians, 152
A Child’s Garden of Verses (Stevenson), 105
Chile, 194–97, 201
China, 8, 13, 199, 212, 344, 348
Chippewa Indians, 7, 67
“Chord” (Merwin), 306
“Christmas 1944” (Levertov), 271
City Lights Books (San Francisco), 215
Civilization, xiv, 6, 10, 71, 105–6, 175, 357.
See also Industrialization; Wilderness
Civil War, Ireland, 45, 107, 108, 264, 271;
Spain, 159, 271; United States, 11, 71, 73, 75,
87, 262
Clare, John, 56–63, 219, 301, 327, 329, 340,
355, 361–62;and Edward Thomas, 130;
glossaries of, 58, 59; “The Moors,” 62;
“The Nightingale ’s Nest,” 7, 58–59, 63;
and other poets, 62, 142, 245, 336, 338, 357;
“The Pettichap’s Nest,” 62; Poems Descrip-
tive of Rural Life and Scenery, 57; “School-
boys in Winter,” 58
“Clear and Colder” (Frost), 116
Cocteau, Jean, 151
Cold War, 263–64
Cole, Thomas, 14, 38, 360
Coleridge, Hartley and Derwent, 40, 41–42
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 39–45, 218, 356,
361;“Frost at Midnight,” 30, 40–41, 50, 90;
on imagination, xiv, 37, 39, 45, 136, 151, 160,
235; as influence, 66, 208, 357; “Inscription
for a Fountain on a Heath,” 42–44, 50;
“Kubla Khan,” 105; as nature poet, 4, 14, 15,
39, 49, 52, 66, 93; on organic form, 66, 272;
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 29, 30, 165,
209; on water, 42–45, 100, 101, 127, 199,
222, 246; and Wordsworth, 36, 39–40, 44
Columbus, Christopher, 8, 9, 66, 151, 152, 265,
335, 341, 357
A Concise School History of the United States, 9
Condors, 11, 171, 189, 198
Constable, John, 14, 54, 132, 183, 340
“Continent ’s End” (Jeffers), 172
Coole (Ireland), 106, 107
Cooney, Barbara, 319
“Corsons Inlet” (Ammons), 298
Cortez, Hernán, 151, 152
“Counting-out Rhyme” (Millay), 192–93
“A Couple” (Swenson), 245
“The Cow” (Roethke), 218
“Credo” (Kumin), 291
Cronon, William, 6, 359
Cross, Frank A., Jr., 315–17
“Crossing the Bar” (Tennyson), 45
Crow (Hughes), 332
“Cuttings (later)” (Roethke), 217
“Cuttings” (Roethke), 216, 219