The Transatlantic Eco-Romanticism of Gary Snyder

Paige Tovey holds a PhD in English Literary Studies from Durham University, UK where she was the recipient of a MHRA Research Associateship (2010-2012) within the Department of English. She has published on subjects ranging from the influence of Alexander Pope on Percy Bysshe Shelley to the post-Romantic poetic form of Gary Snyder.

Introduction 1. The Romantic Pastoral: Snyder's Ecological Literary Inheritance 2. Snyder's Twentieth Century Eco-Romanticism 3. Romantic Aspiration, Romantic Doubt 4. Snyder's Post-Romantic Ecological Vision: The Shaman as Poet/Prophet 5. The Measured Chaos of Snyder's Eco-Poetic Form 6. Snyder's Experimentations with Post-Romantic Ecological Form 7. Mountains as Romantic Emblems of Revelation 8. Rivers as Romantic Emblems of Creation