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American literature--History and criticism, Natural history--United States--Historiography, Nature in literature.
publication date
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1992
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PS163.P38 1992eb
ddc
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810.9/36
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American literature--History and criticism, Natural history--United States--Historiography, Nature in literature.
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For Love of the World
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UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS IOWA CITY
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For Love of the World
Essays on Nature Writers
Sherman Paul
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242
Copyright 1992 by the University of Iowa Press
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Design by Richard Hendel
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Paul, Sherman. For love of the world: essays on nature writers/by Sherman Paul. p. cm. ISBN 0-87745-383-7, ISBN 0-87745-396-9 (pbk.) 1. American literatureHistory and criticism. 2. Natural historyUnited States Historiography. 3. Nature in literature. 1. Title. PS163.P38 1992 92-6160 810.9'36-dc20 CIP
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CONTENTS
Preface
vii
Thoreau
Thinking with Thoreau
3
From Walden Out
13
Three Reviews
22
Leopold
The Husbandry of the Wild
37
Aldo Leopold's Counter-Friction
54
Lopez
Making the Turn: Rereading Barry Lopez
67
Beston
Coming Home to the World: Another Journal for Henry Beston
111
Nelson
The Education of a Hunter: Reading Richard Nelson
135
A Letter from Richard Nelson
163
Eiseley
Back and Down: Loren Eiseley's Immense Journey
179
Muir
Muir's Self-Authorizings
221
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PREFACE
These essays treat the standing problem of our relatedness to nature that Emerson, thinking of his own work in the great succession of thought, said "has exercised the wonder and study of every fine genius since the world began." Nature writers are their subject because they now have a certain exemplarity whose increasing importance we confirm by giving them increasing attention. Inevitably they put the problem of our relation to nature in the most primary and direct way. Even as they confront it, they clarify its twofold aspect: how to reenter the world, participate in it, and recover respect for it, and how to express the experience and significance of encounters of this kind without, by means of language itself, displacing the world.
These essays belong to our moment in history, when, according to George Kateb in his essays "Thinking about Human Extinction," nothing is more essential than our reattachment to earthly existence, even "existence as such." This, to my mind, is spoken for best in the monosyllabic phrases of George Oppen: This in which; That it is. Kateb ponders our fate and the fate of the earth because of the imminence of nuclear destruction. But it seems to me that ecological destruction of a nonnuclear kind is equally imminent and that nature writers, whose witness is informed by many of the perspectives we need, have much to teach us. I know no better fable for our timefor the restoration we must beginthan Jean Giono's The Man Who
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Planted Trees or recall in a lifetime of reading books of more immediate summons than Walden, A Sand County Almanac, and Silent Spring.
I find that the titles that suggest themselves either before or during the writing of a book are both constitutive in their intuitive naming and heuristic, veritable working titles. I have had several in mind all along: Worlding, from Richard Pevear, to stand for works that "belong to the world" as against those that are alienating; Omen[s] of the World, the subtitle of Stephen Owen's Traditional Chinese Poetry and Poetics
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