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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... poets and an in- sightful critic of American values and behaviors , has fully artic- ulated a powerful ecological vision of harmony among nature , society , and the spirit . The order I have chosen to present these five figures is ...
... poet , Snyder stands squarely in the Romantic tradition , believing that clear vision and precise language bring into correspon- dence the inner and outer worlds , the private and the public worlds , the wild and the civilized . Henry ...
... poetic imagination are related forces , " and because the " ecological sciences are laying out ( implicitly ) a spiritual dimension " ( OW , 63 ) . Joseph Wood Krutch found in Aldo Leopold his example of the man with Romantic ideas that ...
... poets who have their feet planted in concrete — concrete data— and by scientists whose heads and hearts have not lost the ... poet , must possess the ability to communicate to the rest of us his sense of love and wonder at what his work ...
... poetic intensity . For Krutch , the student as well as practitioner of the nature essay , this poetic quality was a defining attribute of the genre . Because of her eye for nature's grotesqueries , one might overlook Annie Dillard's ...