384 INDEX
“Daffodils” (Wordsworth), 35–36, 66
“Daisy” (Williams), 144
“The Dance” (Roethke), 219
Danger on Peaks (Snyder), 353–54
Daniel, John, 357
Dante Alighieri, 125, 146, 231, 336
“The Darkling Thrush” (Hardy), 89–90
Darwin, Charles, 12, 80, 95
David (Biblical figure), 23, 24, 31
“Deathfugue” (Celan), 281
Deer, in Frost, 232, 310; Hass, xiii, 226;
Oppen, 5, 15, 24, 224–27, 244, 291, 310,
329; Rexroth, 213; Stafford, 255; Stevens,
136, 137
“The Defective Record” (Williams), 159
“Déjà Vu” (Kaufman), 277
Deming, Alison, 357
“Depression in Winter” (Kenyon), 325
Derry (New Hampshire), 117–19, 127, 128
The Deserted Village (Goldsmith), 62
De Soto, Hernando, 151
Development, 7, 11, 12, 159, 174, 204, 213
Dickinson, Emily, 4–6, 8, 10, 24, 75–87,362;
on beauty as nature ’s fact, 81, 226, 237;
“Because I could not stop for Death,” 87;
“A Bird came down the Walk,” 79–81;
“The Brain is wider than the Sky,” 29, 30,
69–70; as influence, 116–17, 124, 143–44,
231, 241, 245, 292, 327, 336, 357; “I reason,
Earth is short,” 116–17; “I taste a liquor
never brewed,” 76; “A narrow Fellow in
the Grass,” xiii, 7, 21, 82–86, 139, 163, 208,
218, 232, 241, 329; “‘Nature ’ is what we
see,” 81; and other poets, 103, 182, 219, 274;
photos of, 75, 77, 241, 242, 244; “A Route
of Evanescence,” 78–79, 241; “To make
a prairie,” 81; “Touch lightly Nature ’s
sweet Guitar,” 78; and Whitman, 69, 76,
78, 80
“Digging in the Garden of Age I Uncover a
Live Root” (Swenson), 245–46
“Directive” (Frost), 44, 128, 129, 205
Divine Comedy (Dante), 125, 146, 231, 336
Dogon people, 286–87
Donne, John, 23
The Doors (rock group), 34
The Doors of Perception (Huxley), 34
“Dover Beach” (Arnold), 91
“Down by the Salley Gardens” (Yeats), 106
Dreyfus affair, 341
Duchamp, Marcel, 151
“During Wind and Rain” (Hardy), 8, 92–93
“Dust of Snow” (Frost), 124, 126, 310
Dylan, Bob, 32Earth (planet), Bible on subduing and having
dominion over, 2, 5, 8, 10, 19–21, 26, 34,
67–68, 79, 138, 261. See also Animals;
Flowers and plants; Land; Loss; Nature;
Water; Wilderness
“The Earth” (Stafford), 253
Earth Lore for Children, 56
The Earth Owl and Other Moon-People
(Hughes), 332
“Easter 1916” (Yeats), 45, 107, 109
“Easter Morning” (Ammons), 298–300
Ecology (as a term), 5, 298
Eden, 47, 58, 196, 285, 335; as Biblical paradise,
20, 89, 121, 152, 216, 321, 340, 347; in Emer-
son, 66; Mesopotamia as possible site of, 19;
New World seen as, 8, 152, 199; Whitman,
68.See also Adam (Biblical figure)
Elijah (Biblical figure), 20, 31
Eliot, T. S., 14, 329, 351, 356; Four Quartets,
128–29; “Little Gidding,” 44, 129; and
other poets, 34, 120, 128–29, 251, 273, 336;
The Waste Land, 7, 44, 143–44, 146–49, 157,
159, 177, 260, 278, 338; and Williams, 143–
44, 146–49, 153, 158–59
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 8, 115; as influence,
116, 272; on naming as poet ’s task, 21; and
Whitman, 64, 66–68
Enclosure, 4, 59–63
“End of Summer” (Kunitz), 202–3
England, Frost in, 119–20, 131–32; imperialism
of, 338; Lawrence from, 162; Moore in, 176.
See also Europe; Lake District; Thames
River; Specific English poets
“An English Field in the Nuclear Age”
(Levertov), 8, 269–70
“Enough” (Ammons), 295
“Entrada a la madera” (Neruda), 196
Environment (as a term), 5, 7–8, 11. See also
Animals; Earth; Land; Nature; Pollution;
Wilderness
Eskimos, 311–14
Euphrates River, 19
Europe, Eliot ’s embrace of, over America,
7, 120, 129, 143, 146, 149, 153, 251, 273;
Walcott ’s distance from, 336; Williams in,
151–52. See also Specific countries
“The Exchange” (Swenson), 248
“Exiled” (Millay), 185
“Expressions of Sea Level” (Ammons), 297