Building Natures: Modern American Poetry, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning

by Julia Daniel

Book Overview

In Building Natures, Julia Daniel establishes the influence of landscape architecture, city planning, and parks management on American poetry to show how modernists engaged with the green worlds and social playgrounds created by these new professions in the early twentieth century. The modern poets who capture these parks in verse explore the aesthetic principles and often failed democratic ideals embedded in the designers' verdant architectures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813940842
• ISBN13: 9780813940847
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 8.4"