Nature's Kindred Spirits: Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, and Gary SnyderUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1994 M04 1 - 200 pages In Nature's Kindred Spirits James McClintock shows how their mystical experiences with the wild led to dramatic conversions in their thinking and behavior. By embracing the ecstasy of nature, they reject modern alienation and spiritual confusion. |
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... 20th century — History and criticism . 2. Natural history — United States — History — 20th century . 3. Nature in literature . I. Title . PS228.N39M37 818'.54080936 - dc20 1994 93-38110 For Will , Matt , Sally , and Jim.
... critics in the early 1960s , Gary Snyder has received steady attention from such important literary scholars as Charles Altieri , Richard Howard , Thomas Lyon , Thomas Parkinson , and Sherman Paul . There are four longer studies : Bob ...
... critic for The Nation , converted from modernist despair to a joy- ous pantheism he found consistent with scientific thought , even as he turned to nature writing and popularized Leopold's ethic and principles of conservation . Edward ...
... them apart from the main currents of twentieth - century liter- ary and social thinking that have most attracted critics and historians . NATURE'S KINDRED SPIRITS 1 Kindred Spirits The simplest and most Introduction xix.
... life marks them apart from the main currents of twentieth-century literary and social thinking that have most attracted critics and historians. NATURE'S KINDRED SPIRITS 1 Kindred Spirits The simplest and most Introduction xix.