North of Carmel
Jeffers, Bringhurst, and the Ecological View
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895550 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicholas Bradley (0000-0003-1136-4240, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 141-157 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-2023-006 |
| OpenAlex | W4385497600 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
This article proposes that the works of the modern American poet Robinson Jeffers and those of the contemporary Canadian poet Robert Bringhurst are linked by an ecological ethos. Although specific instances of Jeffers’s influence occur here and there in Canadian literary history, the connection between Jeffers and Bringhurst is more substantial, if not immediately obvious. It consists in an aesthetic and intellectual affinity—in a shared poetic terrain that is a conceptual equivalent of the western North American geography they have in common. (Jeffers was a Californian poet; Bringhurst is often associated with the Pacific Northwest.) The poets are comparably concerned with wilderness, which in their works is not always remote or uninhabited but rather characterized by the peripheral place of humanity. In attending to parallels between the authors’ works, the article suggests that reading across the border between Canada and the United States brings into view significant literary connections
Art · Biology · Ethnology · Ethos · Humanity · Literature · Parallels · Poetry · Reading (process · Wilderness · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Ecology · History · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Short Stories in Global Literature
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |