388 INDEX
Kinnell, Galway, 309–17,370;“The Avenue
Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New
World,” 314–15, 356; “The Bear,” 183, 311–
14, 329; “Blackberry Eating,” 317; “The
Gray Heron,” 310; “How Many Nights,”
309–10; influences on, 57, 310; “The Porcu-
pine,” 311; “Saint Francis and the Sow,”
310–11; “Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog
Pond,” 315; and Vietnam War, 287, 310,
315–17
Kiowa Indians, 357
Kizer, Carolyn, 57, 219
Knight, Joe, 356
Knight, William, 63
Knudson, Rozanne, 239
Kovner, Abba and Vitka, 276, 281
Kroeber, Alfred, 1, 252
“Kubla Khan” (Coleridge), 105
Kumin, Maxine, 290–93, 329, 369; “A Bangkok
Gong,” 293; “Credo,” 291; “Hay,” 293; in-
fluences on, 292; and other poets, 182, 333;
“Splitting Wood at Six Above,” 292–93
Kunitz, Stanley, 202–10, 218, 246, 298, 366;
“End of Summer,” 202–3; influences on,
97, 203, 208; on nature, 5; “The Snakes of
September,” 209, 218; “The Testing-Tree,”
205–6; “The War Against the Trees,” 206;
“The Wellfleet Whale,” 206–8, 329; The
Wild Braid, 209–10
“Kyoto: March” (Snyder), 350
Lake District (England), 35–36, 38, 43, 44, 46,
49, 67
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (Yeats), 104–7
Lakota Indians, 12
Land, xiv, 8–10, 12–13, 152, 335, 341, 353; Bib-
lical, 24, 275–81; Eliot ’s view of, 148, 158;
enclosure of English, 4, 56, 59–63; environ-
mental damage to, 11–12, 96, 159, 160, 174,
265, 269, 295, 304–5, 307, 332; ethics to-
ward, 5, 20, 69, 293, 349; surveying of west-
ern U.S., 298. See also Earth; Rocks; Water;
Wilderness; Specific places
Language, Biblical, 23–25, 34, 68–69, 71–72,
336; creole, 336; native, vanishing, 7–8,
306–7; Native American, xiv, 1, 9, 152, 172,
289, 343, 357; Thoreau on, 21, 66, 119; of
whales, 206–7, 303; Whitman’s American,
4–5, 24, 129, 144, 223; Williams on Ameri-
can, 141–49. See also Anglo-Saxon lan-
guage; Metaphor; Names and naming;
Recognition; Translations
“Lapis Lazuli” (Yeats), 109–11, 183, 289, 348
Larkin, Philip, 89
Lascaux caves, 165, 227, 304
The Last of the Curlews (Bodsworth), 304
Lawrence, D. H., 14, 162–69,365; Birds, Beasts
and Flowers!, 162–63, 167, 351; “Fish,” 166,
237; “Mountain Lion,” 167–69; and other
poets, 153, 163, 167, 189, 291, 323, 351; and
painting, 147; “Snake,” 163–65, 168, 183,
208, 218, 232, 329
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 9, 64–74, 76.
See also “Song of Myself ”
Lentine, Genine, 210
Leopold, Aldo, 6, 349
“Let Evening Come” (Kenyon), 326
“Letter in the New Year” (Hall), 324
Levertoff, Paul, 267–68
Levertov, Denise, 8, 160, 215, 266–74, 287, 315,
356, 357, 368;“Christmas 1944,” 271; “An
English Field in the Nuclear Age,” 269–70;
“For Instance,” 268; “Illustrious Ances-
tors,” 267; “In California,” 23, 266–67;
The Life Around Us, 266; “Listening to
Distant Guns,” 269; “The 90th Year,” 267;
and other poets, 23, 24, 95, 268, 271, 272–
73, 280; “The Pulse,” 271–72
Leviathan.See Whales (Leviathan)
“Leviathan” (Merwin), 302–3
Lincoln, Abraham, 73, 151
“Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern
Abbey” (Wordsworth), 35, 62, 234
Li Po (Chinese poet), 213
“Listening to Distant Guns” (Levertov), 269
“Little Gidding” (Eliot), 44, 129
London, Jack, 80
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 9–10, 70
“The Longing” (Roethke), 221
Long Island (New York), 73, 76, 246
“Losing a Language” (Merwin), 306–7
Loss, xiv; in Ammons, 297; Bishop, 228;
Clare, 62, 63; Dickinson, 87; environmen-
tal, 7, 10–13, 198; Frost, 117, 118, 127, 134;
Hall, 325; Hardy, 90; Kaufman, 276; Keats,
54, 117, 118, 203, 214; Lawrence, 165; Lever-
tov, 266; Merwin, 306–7; Millay, 186; Na-
tive Americans, 8–9, 205; Walcott, 337, 340;
Wordsworth, 38
Lowell, James Russell, 264
Lowell, Robert, 234, 237, 259–65, 271, 329,
336, 356, 368;“Fall 1961,” 263–64; “For
the Union Dead,” 262; “The Mouth of the
Hudson,” 264–65; and other poets, 24, 95,