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HAS HAPPENED TO NATURE POETRY? Ask this question of your up-to-date kind of poetry reader, and you will get a stare of blank amazement. There isn't any, he will mutter, although he will soon concede that there is Robert Frost. If he admires Frost, he will probably assure you that Frost is no mere nature poet, the implication being that nature poetry can no longer have serious relevance. He will have behind him the authority of critical opinion, of even Joseph Warren Beach, who, in The Concept of Nature in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry, the most thorough study of the subject, says that the very name and concept of nature have virtually disappeared from twentieth-century poetry. Frost himself is not a nature poet, says Beach, since he writes not about nature but about this, that and the other thing in the country. Beach has in mind the philosophical and protoreligious concept of nature that flourished in the eighteenth century and was already on its way out in the nineteenth. The rel
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HAS HAPPENED TO NATURE POETRY? Ask this question of your up-to-date kind of poetry reader, and you will get a stare of blank amazement. There isn't any, he will mutter, although he will soon concede that there is Robert Frost. If he admires Frost, he will probably assure you that Frost is no mere nature poet, the implication being that nature poetry can no longer have serious relevance. He will have behind him the authority of critical opinion, of even Joseph Warren Beach, who, in The Concept of Nature in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry, the most thorough study of the subject, says that the very name and concept of nature have virtually disappeared from twentieth-century poetry. Frost himself is not a nature poet, says Beach, since he writes not about nature but about this, that and the other thing in the country. Beach has in mind the philosophical and protoreligious concept of nature that flourished in the eighteenth century and was already on its way out in the nineteenth. The rel
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