Routledge Environmental Humanities Nature, Environment and Poetry: Ecocriticism and the poetics of Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, (Hardcover)

This ecocritical book traces the environmental sensibilities of two Anglophone poets; Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), and Ted Hughes (1930-1998), one of the 20^th century's great English poets. It follows how their respective careers follow the accelerating environmental crises of the 20^th century, and how their poems address the relationship between language and ecology, nature and nation, human and animal. While both have been well-studied by critical thinkers before, this book reads their poems afresh for their understandings of local places and global crisis in the century of the environment.