Reclaiming Romanticism by Rigby, Kate;

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The earliest environmental criticism took its inspiration from the Romantic poets and their immersion in the natural world. Today the ""romanticising"" of nature has come to be viewed with suspicion. This open access book, written by one of the leading ecocritics writing today, rediscovers the importance of the European Romantic tradition to the ways that writers and critics engage with the environment in the Anthropocene era. Exploring the work of such poets as Wordsworth, Shelley and Clare, the book discovers a rich vein of Romantic ecomaterialism and brings these canonical poets into dialogue with contemporary American and Australian poets and artists. Kate Rigby demonstrates the ways in which Romantic ecopoetics responds to postcolonial challenges and environmental peril to offer a collaborative artistic practice for an era of human-non-human cohabitation and kinship.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollection.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One
'Come forth into the light of things': Contemplative Ecopoetics
Chapter Two
'Seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness': Affective Ecopoetics
Chapter Three
'Piping in their honey dreams': Creaturely Ecopoetics
Chapter Four
'the wrong dream': Prophetic Ecopoetics
Chapter Five
'deeper tracks wind back': Decolonial Ecopoetics
Postscript: Ecopoetics beyond the page
Works cited