{"product_id":"the-song-of-the-earth-9780674001688","title":"The Song of the Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs we enter a new millennium ruled by technology  will poetry still matter? The Song of the Earth answers eloquently in the affirmative. A book about our growing alienation from nature  it is also a brilliant meditation on the capacity of the writer to bring us back to earth  our home.  In the first ecological reading of English literature  Jonathan Bate traces the distinctions among \"nature \" \"culture \" and \"environment\" and shows how their meanings have changed since their appearance in the literature of the eighteenth century. An intricate interweaving of climatic  topographical  and political elements poetically deployed  his book ranges from greenhouses in Jane Austens novels to fruit bats in the poetry of Les Murray  by way of Thomas Hardys woodlands  Dr. Frankensteins Creature  John Clares birds nests  Wordsworths rivers  Byrons bear  and an early nineteenth-century novel about an orangutan who stands for Parliament. Though grounded in the English Romantic tradition  the book also explores American  Central European  and Caribbean poets and engages theoretically with Rousseau  Adorno  Bachelard  and especially Heidegger.  The model for an innovative and sophisticated new \"ecopoetics \" The Song of the Earth is at once an essential history of environmental consciousness and an impassioned argument for the necessity of literature in a time of ecological crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45951512281141,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674001680","price":242.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674001688.jpg?v=1788111239","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-song-of-the-earth-9780674001688","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}