books by Robert Pogue Harrison (historical condition dominion)

books by Robert Pogue Harrison

books:

Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition

1 review
Robert Pogue Harrison

University Of Chicago Press, 2008

Scholarly and Deep
Brilliant and revealing. BEAR IN MIND THAT THIS IS ABOVE ALL, A SCHOLARLY, IN-DEPTH WORK. I'll need to read it again to let the major points sink in (I'm no scholar). The treatment of the Eden myth is remarkably thoughtful.

The Body of Beatrice
Robert Pogue Harrison

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

Harrison's elegant poems follow in the steps of his work on interpreting the classic "Divine Comedy"by Dante. (Poetry)

Contemporary Italian Poetry (TriQuarterly, No. 127)

1 review

Northwestern University Press, 2007

poetry from the catacombs
In their introduction to this volume, the editors tell us that for Italian poets today, "writing poetry is a way of going underground, into the catacombs, so to speak." The poets work in isolation, as "single, self-referential voices." This volume has managed to bring together a compelling selection of these scattered voices, revealing the extraordinary vitality of contemporary Italian poetry. ...

Forests: The Shadow of Civilization

8 reviews
Robert Pogue Harrison

University Of Chicago Press, 1993

An important work with appeal to several fields
Although this is clearly a work in literary criticism, it is one that will appeal to those working in other areas. For instance, those working on Environmental Ethics will find a great deal of very information about how forests have been conceived in a great deal of the literature of the greater European world throughout history. Intellectual historians with an interest in how Europeans have ...

The Dominion of the Dead (Historical Studies of Urban America)

1 review
Robert Pogue Harrison

University Of Chicago Press, 2005

nil nisi bonum
As could be expected, Robert Pogue Harrison presents a thoughtful and elegant meditation on remembrance and the power of the dead for the living. It is curious to see how many patterns the dead fashion for us in our care for them. Though versions of Heideggerian phenomenology and the philology of Vico inform threads of the argument, at no time does the poetic work find itself in a bog of theory ...