| Autor: |
Coletta, W. John1, Palmer, Joy A.2,3,4,5, Cooper, David E.6, Corcoran, Peter Blaze7 |
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Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment. 2000, p83-93. 11p. |
| Abstrakt: |
This article analyzes the poems of John Clare, an English poet, as they relate to nature. Clare is important to the history of environmental thinking in at least two ways. His natural history poems dramatize what the 20th-century ecologist Eugene Odum describes as the values of old growth ecological communities, their tendency to optimize protection, stability, and quality over production, change, and quantity. Clare's natural history poetry also dramatizes the operation of natural systems in what we might today call post-modern terms: these systems are ironic agents. For Clare, natural systems are sites of resistance to the closure of science or to any other form of institutionalized thought. In conclusion, Clare was a great poet of what may be called phenomenological ecology: the study of fields of experience. |
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GreenFILE |
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