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Ecopoetry is any poetry with a strong ecological or environmental emphasis or message. Many poets and poems in the past have expressed ecological concerns, but only recently has there been an established term to describe them; there is now, in English-speaking poetry, a recognisable subgenre of poetry, termed Ecopoetry, which can, on occasions, form a major strand of a writer's career ...
It includes poetry, essays of solitude or escape, as well as travel and adventure writing. [ 1 ] Modern-day nature writing traces its roots to works of natural history that initially gained popularity in the second half of the 18th century, and continued to do so throughout the 19th century.
In 1867, Burroughs published Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person, the first biography and critical work on the poet, which was extensively (and anonymously) revised and edited by Whitman himself before publication. [9] Four years later, the Boston house of Hurd & Houghton published Burroughs's first collection of nature essays, Wake-Robin.
Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment: Thomas H. Stoner, Jr. M: 1960– Sustainable development: Small Change Big Gains: Reflections of an Energy Entrepreneur: John Tallmadge: M: Nature: Reading Under the Sign of Nature: New Essays in Ecocriticism (co-edited) Sarah McFarland Taylor: F: Various themes: Green Sisters ...
Local nature poets will gather and share their work at the Maywood Ecology Center’s 12th annual Language of Nature Poetry Reading and Discussion.
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. His early poetry has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance and he has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology". [2] Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the American Book Award.
Gil Scott-Heron in 1986. Gil Scott-Heron was a poet, jazz musician, scholar, and novelist of Jamaican and African American descent. [2] [3] His 1970 debut album, Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, contained spoken-word pieces that showcased his many literary and musical influences, including Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, and the Last Poets.
John Gower (/ ˈ ɡ aʊ. ər /; c. 1330 – October 1408) was an English poet, a contemporary of William Langland and the Pearl Poet, and a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer. [1] He is remembered primarily for three major works—the Mirour de l'Omme , Vox Clamantis , and Confessio Amantis — three long poems written in French, Latin, and ...