Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry

by Bonnie Costello

Just as the look of the American landscape has changed since the nineteenth century, so has our idea of landscape. Here Bonnie Costello reads six twentieth-century American poets who have reflected and shaped this transformation and in the process renovated landscape by drawing new images from the natural world and creating new forms for imagining the earth and our relation to it.

240 pages, Hardcover

First published March 30, 2003

Reviews

[James]

It's an academic but very readable account of how some great poets use landscape, i.e., the American obsession and disregard for what is called the natural world, as if it were somehow separate from us, or as if we were not a part of it.