Cognitive Ecopoetics: A New Theory of Lyric

Environmental Cultures

by Sharon Lattig, Greg Garrard (Editor), Richard Kerridge (Editor)

New insights from cognitive theory and literary ecocriticism have the power to transform our understanding of one of the most important literary the lyric poem. In Cognitive Ecopoetics , Sharon Lattig brings these two schools of criticism together for the first time to consider the ways in which lyric forms re-enact cognitive processes of the mind and brain. Along the way the book reads anew the long history of the lyric, from Andrew Marvell, through canonical poets such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson to contemporary writers such as Susan Howe and Charles Olson.

248 pages, Hardcover

Published November 12, 2020