Theodore Roethke, William Stafford, and Gary Snyder: The Ecological Metaphor as Transformed Regionalism

by Lars Nordström

This study examines the new ecological dimensions of the regional impulse in the poetry of three major, contemporary poets of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The study opens with a survey and analysis of the discussion of a general regional aesthetic in poetry in the Northwest during the 20th century and argues that the important development visible in the regional impluse since World War II in these poets has less to do with an earlier...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9155423388
• ISBN13: 9789155423384
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Coronet Books
• Length: 200 Pages