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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... Vision of Nature ( 1985 ) is an eloquent examination of po- etry by , among others , Gary Snyder , A. R. Ammons , Wendell Berry , and Denise Levertov , as well as prose by Annie Dillard and Peter Matthiessen . Peter A. Fritzell's Nature ...
... Vision : Poetry and the Real Work ( 1983 ) , Tim Dean's Gary Snyder and the American Un- conscious : Inhabiting the Ground ( 1991 ) , and Patrick D. Murphy's Understanding Gary Snyder ( 1992 ) . A valuable but nonscholarly volume ...
... vision . Absorbed in seeing and understand- ing the natural world close at hand , Aldo Leopold , Joseph Wood Krutch , Edward Abbey , Annie Dillard , and Gary Snyder constitute a community of interest by sharing a cluster of ideas and ...
... vision of harmony among nature , society , and the spirit . The order I have chosen to present these five figures is somewhat arbitrary since one can construct rationales for other sequences . Any rationale , however , would probably ...
... vision of nature and soci- ety , Abbey's self - conscious literary heritage and political indig- nation , and Dillard's faithful spiritual pilgrimage and mystical experience . Despite their differences — Snyder doesn't write nature es ...