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Title Green voices : understanding contemporary nature poetry / Terry Gifford.
Author Gifford, Terry, author.
Edition Second edition.
Publisher Nottingham : Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, 2011.


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 In Library  1 week  Library Level 9  English E508.N3 GIF2  

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Description 214 pages ; 23 cm.
ISBN 9781905510290 paperback (UK)
9781602710269 paperback (USA)
Note Previous ediiton originally published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1995.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-208) and index.
Contents 1. The social construction of nature -- 2. Some versions of contemporary pastoral? The poetry of Norman Nicholson, George Mackay Brown, John Montague and R.S. Thomas -- 3. The anti-pastoral tradition and Patrick Kavanagh's The Great Hunger -- 4. A culture of kinship and place: the poetry of Sorley MacLean -- 5. "Art a paradigm of earth": The poetry of Seamus Heaney -- 6. Laureate of nature: the poetry of Ted Hughes -- 7. Many green voices.
Library Class English E508.N3
Subject English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Pastoral poetry, English -- History and criticism.
Nature in literature.

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