The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses

The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses is a unique anthology of poetry about the natural world.

The rich poetic history of grass spans the centuries, from the pastoral poems of ancient Rome to the fields and prairies of the New World. The rapturous idealizations of William Blakeâ€™s â€œechoing greenâ€ and William Wordsworthâ€™s â€œsplendour in the grassâ€ stand in vivid contrast to the obliterating greenery on human battlefields in war poems such as John McCraeâ€™s â€œIn Flanders Fieldsâ€ and Carl Sandburgâ€™s â€œGrass,â€ or to the work of contemporary poetsâ€”Lucia Perillo, Harryette Mullen, Denise Levertov, and Gary Soto among themâ€”who reflect on an age of environmental crisis. Here is a rich array of poets from around the world, including Virgil, Tâ€™ao Châ€™ien, BashÅ, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burns, Victor Hugo, Christina Rossetti, Rainer Maria Rilke, Anna Akhmatova, Willa Cather, Ingeborg Bachmann, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Tomas TranstrÃ¶mer, Sherman Alexie, and Derek Walcott, in a dazzling celebration of our complicated relationship to nature.
Country USA
Brand Everyman's Library
Manufacturer Everyman's Library
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2016-03-15
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781101907733

The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)