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By George Hart

From 1920 until eventually his demise in 1962, awareness and its impression at the wildlife used to be Robinson Jeffers’s obsession. figuring out and explaining the organic foundation of brain is among the towering demanding situations of recent technological know-how to today, and Jeffers’s poetic scan is a crucial contribution to American literary history—no different twentieth-century poet tried this kind of thorough engagement with a vital medical challenge. Jeffers invented a sacramental poetics that comprises a contemporary medical account of attention, thereby integrating an primarily non secular sensibility with technological know-how on the way to become aware of the sacramentality of ordinary procedure and show a divine cosmos.

There is not any different examine of Jeffers or sacramental nature poetry like this one. It proposes that Jeffers’s sacramentalism emerged out of his scientifically educated realizing of fabric nature. Drawing on ecocriticism, non secular experiences, and neuroscience, Inventing the Language
to inform It indicates how Jeffers produced the main compelling sacramental nature poetry of the 20th century.

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